Epidemiology Kept Simply: Introduction to Traditional and Modern Epidemiology (3rd Edition)

Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

By B. Burt Gerstman

 

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Errata

Transition Table � changes made in revising the second edition to this third edition

Formula Pamphlet

 

Chapter

Power Point Presentations

Labs & Case Studies

 

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Additional Exercises

Additional Links

1: Epidemiology past and present

chap1-eks-3ed.ppt

Lab:_The_epidemiologic_tradition (article: Terris 1979) [Epi tradition key]

 

 

2: Causal concepts 

chap2-eks-3ed.ppt

Lab: Causal Concepts (Info about diseases: Salmonella, asthma, Gonorrhea, heart disease, HIV)

 

Rothman1976.pdf

Doll1965.pdf   
Richard Doll video

3: Epidemiologic measures

chap3-eks-3ed.ppt

Lab: HIV trends in Zimbabwe (article: Gregson 2006; online supplement) [Zimbabwe key]

Lab: Relating risk factors to health, simplified [Relating risk factors key]

Lab: HPV & CIN (article: Koutsky 1992) [HPV/CIN key]

Lab: Rate adjustment [Rate adjustment lab key]

New Exercises Chapter 3

New Exercises Ch 3 Key
[password protected]

Formula Sheets

4: Descriptive epidemiology

chap4-eks-3ed.ppt 

Lab:_War_on_cancer (articles: Bailar 1997 ; Kramer 1997; Letters) [War key]

Lab:_Multiple_sclerosis (article: Bronnum-Hansen 1994) [Multiple Sclerosis key]

 

 

5: Introduction to study design

 chap5-eks-3ed.ppt 

Analytic study designs [Analytic designs key]

 

 

6: Experimental studies

chap6-eks-3ed.ppt

Lab:_CABG_v_PCI (article: Hlatky 2009) [CABG/PCI key]

Lab: Drinking water intervention (article: Colford 2005) [Drinking water key]

 

Miettinen1989.pdf  

7: Observational cohort studies

chap7-eks-3ed.ppt

Lab: Anger_prone personality and CHD (article: Williams 2001) [Anger prone key]

New Exercises Chapter 7.pdf

 

8: Case-control studies

chap8-eks-3ed.ppt

Lab:_Lung Cancer in Nonsmoking Women (article: Fontham 1991)

Lab:_CIN & HPB: Interpretation (articles: NCI Fact Sheet; Schiffman 1993) 
Lab:_The patch & thromboembolism (article: Cole2007.pdf)

New Exercises Chapter 8.pdf

Additional case-control formulas

ORTHO EVRA causal inference

9:  Error in epi research

chap9-eks-3ed.ppt

Sources of Error (V. Schoenbach)

UNC Lab on Confounding (V. Schoenbach)

 

Vic's Chapter on Sources of Error

10: Screening for Disease

chap10-eks-3ed.ppt

Lab:_Agreement between two TB screening tests [TB screening key] [TB screening rubric]

Lab: Screening for antibodies to HIV

New Exercises for Chapter 10.pdf

 

11: Infectious Disease Process 

chap11-eks-3ed.ppt

Bioterrorism related Anthrax [Anthrax key]

 

 

12: Outbreak investigation

 

Rhyndale GIitis Outbreak
Mecca GIitis Outbreak [Mecca key]
Texarkana Measles Outbreak [Texarkana instructor notes]

 

 

13: Confidence Intervals & P Values

 

 

 

 

14 Mantel-Haenszel methods

 

 

 

 

15 Statistical interaction

 

 

 

 

16: Case definitions and disease classification

 

 

 

 

17 Survival analysis

 

 

 

 

18 Current life tables

 

 

 

 

19 Random distribution of cases

 

 

 

 

Appendix 4

 

Case study�cigarette smoking and lung cancer  [Instructor notes] [Grading rubric]

 

 

Appendix 5

 

Case study�tampons and toxic shock  [Instructor notes]

 

 

o    WinPepi (Great tool with excellent documentation; runs on Windows computers; must be downloaded and installed)