This book is meant for adoption in first courses on epidemiology in Medical Schools and Faculties of Public Health in developing and transition countries and in workshops in these countries, taught for example by members of international organizations.
The idea of epidemiology.- Uses and applications of epidemiology.- Some case studies and situation analyses.- Infectious diseases: descriptive epidemiology, transmissions, surveillance, control.- Infectious diseases: modelling, immunity.- Diarrhoea and cholera.- Tuberculosis and malaria.- Dengue fever.- Viral hepatitis.- HIV/AIDS.- The origin of information: registers and health information systems.- The origin of information: sampling.- Descriptive data analysis and statistics.- The normal law and applications.- Basic concepts of epidemiology.- Cross sectional studies.- Cohort studies.- Clinical (therapeutic trials).- Clinical epidemiology.- Case control studies.- Confouding.- Epidemiology of cancer.- Epidemiology of cardio vascular diseases.- Community studies.- Nutritional and environmental epidemiology.- Social and genetic epidemiology.- Some practical considerations around epidemiologic studies.- Outlook.
