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This course consists of the following lectures:

Nature and uses of epidemiology

Disease transmission and context

Disease categorization and classification

Population sampling

Measures of disease frequency, association

Standardized rates and ratios, age/cohort/period analysis

Validity, reliability, screening for disease

Survival and the life tables

Vital data

Morbidity data: registries, surveillance

Study base and directionality.Community surveys

Randomized trials

Cohort studies

Case-control studies

Bias and confounding

Statistical association and causality