Epidemiology Kept Simple

Epidemiology past and present; selected epidemiologic disease concepts; elements of infectious and chronic disease epidemiology; identification of disease, part I (reproducibility and validity); identification of disease, part II (case definition and standardized nomenclatures); measures of disease frequency; stratification and adjustment; measures of association and potential impact; analytic study designs; inaccuracy in epidemiologic studies, part I (imprecision); inaccuracies in epidemiologic studies, part II (bias); from association to causation; clusters and outbreaks, part I (establishing the existence of an epidemic); clusters and outbreaks, part II (outbreak investigation method); computing and epidemiology.