Lecture by Topic

Lecture by Topic

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Epidemiology	Special Diseases	Public Health
Basic Concepts and Principles Basic Methods Common Topics Clinical Epidemiology Environmental Health Family, Children and Women's Health Injury Molecular Epidemiology Occupational Health, Military health	Cardiovascular Disease Cancer Diabetes Human-Animal Interaction Infectious Disease Others	Public Health Global Health Rehabilitation
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		About Supercourse Application of the Internet Health Information
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Epidemiology
Basic Concepts and Principles		Back to the top

Epidemiology Course by Nigel Paneth (22 lectures in English, Spanish Version translated by Nicolas Padilla and lectures in Portuguese, translated by Maria Rita Barros Justino)	Principles of Epidemiology Course by Dona Schneider (16 lectures in English and full Spanish version translated by Nicolas Padilla)
A Brief Introduction to Epidemiology Course by Betty Jung (lectures in English and Spanish)	Principles of Epidemiology Course by Kevin Kip (27 lectures in English)
Concepts of Epidemiology Course by Raj Bhohal (10 lectures in English and 1 in Spanish)	DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY for Public Health Professionals Course by Ian Rockett (4 lectures in English)
A Primer in Surveys revised	Introduction to Focus Group in Chinese
EPIDEMIOLOGÍA NUTRICIONAL (I): Concepto Tipos de estudios in Spanish	Data Quality Control in Chinese in Spanish
Variables in Spanish	Principles of Research Synthesis Part I. Part II.
INVESTIGACION EN ATENCION PRIMARIA DE SALUD (In Spanish). Part I Part II	Randomised controlled trials in primary care: case study
Study Designs in Epidemiologic Research in Spanish	Screening and its Useful Tools
La técnica de los grupos focales (In Spanish)	Evaluation and evaluative research in healthcare: analysis of an example
Assessing Disease Frequency	Measures of Association in Spanish
CASE CONTROL STUDIES	Attributable Fraction: Fundamental Differences in Interpretations of Probability of Causation in Chinese in Spanish
DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES	Cohort Studies COHORT STUDY In Spanish
Introduction to the Fundamentals of Epidemiology	Web of Causation; Exposure and Disease Outcomes

Basic Methods

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Capture-recapture techniques for determining incidence and prevalence of diabetes	Epidemiologic Design I (focus on descriptive study ) II (focus on analytic study)
Advanced Quantitative Methods. Part I Part II Part III Part IV	Absolute, Relative and Attributable Risks. Part I Part II
Analysis, Reporting, and Feedback of Surveillance Data part I part II	Sampling Frames and Study Types: Studies on life events in Spanish
Different Kinds of Epidemiologic Studies	Case Crossover Design
Screening and Disease Prevention	Screening
Migrant Studies in Chinese	How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis
Questionnaire Design: An Introduction in Spanish	Introduction to Needs Assessments
Introduction to Program Evaluation	Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials in Health Research
Screening in Chinese CASE CONTROL STUDIES	Epidemiology Key Terms and Measures
Epidemiology Applications Disaster epidemiology	La Prueba de Una Prueba. Como Evaluar Una Prueba Tamiz in Spanish
Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA)	Analysis, Interpretation and Using of Population Survey Results (In Russian)
Study Management. Part I Part II Part I Part II in Spanish	Confounding in Spanish DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES
THE MODELING OF SCIENCE. Factors that influence Science. Part I. Part II.	STUDY PLANNING & DESIGN TO ENHANCE TRANSLATION OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR RESEARCH
Validation of predictive regression models	Epidemiologic study designs
COMO HACER LA PRESENTACION ORAL DE UN TRABAJO	A source of Error in Self-Reports of Pap Test Utilization
Epidemiologic design from a sampling perspective	A Primer on Sample Survey in Chinese
USES OF DEMOGRAPHY	Surveillance in Chinese
Dose-Response Relation between Physical Activity and Health: An Observational Epidemiologic Perspective	Critical Appraisal. Or Making Reading More Worthwhile in Spanish
Sample size (In Russian)	DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY

Common Topics

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The Five Main Rubrics of Epidemiology, As Applied to Drug Dependence Syndromes	Scientific Writing for epidemiology
The Effectiveness of Mass Media Campaigns: Youth Substance Abuse	UNICEF IN INDIA. NEW CHALLENGES AND CHANGING ROLE. Part I Part II
The Research Design for Social Experiment (In Chinese)	UNICEF COOPERATION IN INDIA
DYNAMICS OF DISEASE AND DISEASE TRANSMISSION	How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper in Spanish
ORIGIN, GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY	EPIDEMIOLOGY - ITS PERSPECTIVES & APPLICATIONS
Epidemiological Transition revised	Disease Monitoring in the Population revised
Epidemiology of Medical Devices	Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry Program in Spanish
Annual Report 101 in Chinese	How to Read an Article on a New Diagnostic Test revised
Transición Epidemiolóica	Low Fitness as a Predictor of Morbidity and Mortality
Mortality of Twins and Singletons	Epidemiology of Endemic Fluorosis in Chinese
Self-Rated Health in Epidemiological Surveys as a Predictor of Disability and Mortality	Management of a Disease Outbreak: Meningococcal Infection at a High School
Les Etudes d'observation en Epidemiologie	Les Mesures en Epidemiologie
Screening and Early Detection. Part I Part II	Screening
Mental Health and Illness. An Epidemiological Perspective	Is it worth the risk?: Risk perception in Chinese
Epidemiology of chronic disease	Epidemiological Researches in Egypt
Ophthalmic Epidemiology: A Clouded Vision (in Croatian) in Chinese	Epidemiological Researches in Egypt
INTRODUCCIÓN A LA EPIDEMIOLOGÍA	Epidemiologia Del Delito in Spanish
Epidemiology of Fear. Part I Part II	Potential Errors In Epidemiologic Studies. Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Causation in Chinese in Spanish	Herd Immunity and Vaccination
Social Aspects of Diseases in Chinese	Deriving Biological Inferences From Epidemiologic Studies
The “Brain Drain” Phenomenon. Global Mobility of Science and Technology Personnel	EL RAHAD FIELD RESEARCH CENTRE - CHALLENGING HEALTH PROBLEMS -WESTERN SUDAN
Primordial prevention	The Use of Epidemiologic Methods in Disasters
Epidemiologic Transition: Changes of fertility and mortality with modernization. Part I Part II	EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE for Beginners. Part I Part II (in Spanish) Part I Part II
Finding Research Support. Part I Part II Part I (in Spanish) Part II (in Spanish)	K.A.P STUDY ON FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKERS
Physical Activity Epidemiology	PAKISTAN: Epidemiological Transition. Country Statistics

Clinical Epidemiology

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What is Clinical research? And what do we do it?	1000 Drug Interactions That You Didn’t Know You Knew
How to Interpret Your Lab Results	Does the Pharmacotherapy of ADHD Beget Later Substance Abuse? A Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature
Drug Interactions. Part I Part II Part I in Chinese Part II in Chinese	TOXICITY OF NEW GENERATION PHARMACEUTICAL AGENTS in Chinese
Effectiveness of therapy. Part I Part II	EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE. Prognosis in Chinese
One for You and One for Me: Drug Seeking Patients and Professionals. Part I Part II	Clinical Epidemiology: Sense and Sensitivity. Second Lecture Efficiency and Errors
Clinical Epidemiology: Third Lecture in Hebrew	Pharmacoepidemiology revised in Chinese
Evidence-Based Medicine: Can we practice effectively without it? in Chinese	Clinical examination of the thyroid in Chinese
Gaucher's Disease a Model to Clinical Research	Clinical Trial Concepts revised in Chinese
Clinical epi: Diagnosis I in Chinese Diagnosis II II in Chinese Diagnosis III III in Chinese	Fibrinogen in South Asians in Chinese
The origin of Bimaristans (hospitals) in Islamic medical history	Clinical Epidemiology Sense and Sensitivity: First Lecture in Hebrew
La Investigación Clínica: Conceptos y Ética(in Spanish)	La Investigación Clínica: Fases de la Investigación (in Spanish)
La Investigación Clínica: Funciones y Responsabilidades. Part I (in Spanish) Part II (in Spanish)	Investigación Clínica: Las responsabilidades del investigador. Part I (in Spanish) Part II (in Spanish)
CLINICAL TRIALS	Artichoke of Population Studies and Clinical Practice
Antioxidant Vitamin Therapy: To 'E' or not to 'E'	Diagnostic tests
	Clinical Trials. Scientific Aspects AND Legal & Procedural Aspects in Spanish

Environmental Health

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Travel medicine Course	Global Warming Course
Tobacco and Health Supercourse	Toxicologic Epidemiology course by Michael H. Dong
Drug Abuse & Addiction Supercourse	Prescription Drug Abuse
Methamphetamine: The Science of Addiction. Part I Part II Part III Part IV	Mineral status of Soil, Feed and Fodder for Dairy Animals in different Agro-climatic Zones in INDIA
Rice for Feeding half the World Population	New Plant Breeding Strategies
Dopamine’s Role in Drug Craving in Spanish	Fish diseases and the environment in Spanish
Methamphetamines	Effectively Breaking the Cycle of Drugs and Crime in Spanish
An Internist Encounters Addiction: Heroin, Alcohol, and HIV Infection in a 42-Year-Old Man With Abdominal Pain. Part I Part II	Drug Abuse & Addiction. Part I Part II Part I Part II in Spanish
Global Climate Change: Health Risks – and Preventive Strategies	Songhua River Polution and Control in Harbin, China
Global Environmental Change Science	Global Environmental Change & Health Part I Part II