Overview

Teaching Epidemiology is written for those who are teaching epidemiology for the first time or for those who have to teach a new course in epidemiology. The book covers core (method) issues as well as disease or exposure oriented topics, and provides a carefully selected set of reading material that the teacher should be familiar with.

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Author:   Jorn Olsen ,  Naomi Greene ,  Rodolfo Saracci ,  Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   4th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.834kg
ISBN:  

9780199685004

ISBN 10:   0199685002
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   02 April 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Context 1: Rodolfo Saracci: Introducing the history of epidemiology 2: Olli S. Miettinen: Important concepts in epidemiology 3: Jorn Olsen and Olga Basso: Study Design 4: Per Kragh Andersen: Statistics in epidemiology 5: Kenneth J. Rothman and Sherri O. Stuver: Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods Part 2: Exposure-oriented Epidemiology 6: Jakob Bue Bjorner and Jorn Olsen: Questionnaires in epidemiology 7: Anders Ahlbom: Environment 8: Neil Pearce: Occupational epidemiology 9: Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Diana Kuh: Life course epidemiology 10: Susan Jick: Pharmacoepidemiology 11: Walter C. Willett: Nutritional epidemiology 12: Harry Campbell and Susan Service: Genetic epidemiology 13: Betsy Foxman: Teaching molecular epidemiology 14: Nancy Krieger: Social inequalities in health 15: Ulisses Confalonieri and Shilu Tong: Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom Part 3: Outcome-oriented Epidemiology 16: Marc Lipsitch: Infectious disease epidemiology 17: Pagona Lagiou and Dimitrios Trichopoulos: Cancer epidemiology 18: Rebecca Fuhrer and Kelly K. Anderson: Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology 19: C. A. Molgaard, A. L. Golbeck, and J. F. Rothrock: Neurologic diseases 20: Jorn Olsen and Ellen Aagaard Nohr: Reproductive epidemiology 21: Josep M. Anto: Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology 22: Eleni Petridou, Patricia Gerakopoulou and Constantine N. Antonopoulos: Epidemiology of injuries 23: Georgios Tsakos and Vibeke Baelum: Dental epidemiology 24: John A. Baron, Henrik Toft Sorensen, and Harold C. Sox, Jr.: Clinical epidemiology 25: Paul Elliott and Anna Hansell: Study of clustering and outbreaks 26: Henrik Toft Sorensen And John A. Baron: Registries and medical databases 27: J. H. Abrahamson: Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom Part 4: Pedagogies 28: Naomi Greene and Tarun Bhatnagar: Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology

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Jorn Olsen is Professor of Epidemiology at AU, SDU and UCLA. Have published books and articles in several fields of epidemiology but most of the work has been in reproductive health. Naomi Greene holds a Ph.D in Epidemiology and MPH in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She has an extensive clinical background in maternal and child health which guides her research interest in lifecourse epidemiology and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Dimitrios Trichopoulos MD, PhD, is Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Member of the Athens Academy and President of the Hellenic Health Foundation, Greece. He has served as director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention; chairman of the Epidemiology Departments at the University of Athens and at Harvard; and adjunct professor of medical epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Dr. Trichopoulos has received several awards and distinctions, including honorary Doctorates, the Brinker International Award for Breast Cancer Clinical Research, the Julius Richmond Award, and the Medal of Honor of the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

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