SESSION

CLASS NO.

TOPIC

TOPIC AREA 1: OVERVIEW OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

1.1

1  (week 1)

Nature and uses of epidemiology

1.2

2  (week 1)

Disease transmission and context

TOPIC AREA 2: MEASUREMENT OF DISEASE IN POPULATIONS

2.1a

3  (week 2)

Disease categorization and classification

2.1b

4  (week 3)

Population sampling

2.2

5-6  (weeks 3,4)

Measures of disease frequency, association

2.3

7-8  (week 5)

Standardized rates and ratios, age/cohort/period analysis

2.4

9-10 (week 6)

Validity, reliability, screening for disease

2.5

11 (week 7)

Survival and the life table

TOPIC AREA 3: SOURCES AND TYPES OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA

3.1

13  (week 8)

Special session on how to computer search and use libraries and vital data systems

3.2

14  (week 8)

Vital data

 Morbidity data:  registries, surveillance

TOPIC AREA 4: EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY DESIGNS

4.1a

15  (week 9)

Study base and directionality

4.1b

16  (week 9)

Community surveys

4.2

17 (week 10)           

Randomized trials

4.3

18-19 (weeks 10,11)

Cohort studies

4.4

20-21 (weeks 11,12)

Case-control studies

TOPIC AREA 5: DERIVING CAUSAL INFERENCES

5.1

22-23 (weeks 12,13)

Bias and confounding

5.2

24-25 (weeks 13,14)

Statistical association and causality