SECTION I The Epidemiologic Approach to Disease and Intervention
1 Introduction
2 The Dynamics of Disease Transmission
3 The Occurrence of Disease: I. Disease Surveillance and Measures of Morbidity
4 The Occurrence of Disease: II. Mortality and Other Measures of Disease Impact
5 Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Diagnostic and Screening Tests
6 The Natural History of Disease: Ways of Expressing Prognosis
SECTION II Using Epidemiology to Identify the Cause of Disease
7 Observational Studies
8 Cohort Studies
9 Comparing Cohort and Case-Control Studies
10 Assessing Preventive and Therapeutic Interventions: Randomized Trials
11 Randomized Trials: Some Further Issues
12 Estimating Risk: Is There an Association?
13 More on Risk: Estimating the Potential for Prevention
14 From Association to Causation: Deriving Inferences From Epidemiologic Studies
15 More on Causal Inference: Bias, Confounding, and Interaction
16 Identifying the Roles of Genetic and Environmental Factors in Disease Causation
SECTION III Applying Epidemiology to Evaluation and Policy
17 Using Epidemiology to Evaluate Health Services
18 Epidemiologic Approach to Evaluating Screening Programs
19 Epidemiology and Public Policy
20 Ethical and Professional Issues in Epidemiology
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