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Epidemiology Course 5

10 lectures covering the concepts of epidemiology.

Epidemiology Course 5 Lectures

  • Cause and effect: the epidemiological approach
  • Natural history, spectrum, iceberg, population patterns and screening: interrelated concepts in the epidemiology of disease
  • Presentation and interpretation of epidemiological data: objectives
  • Risk and frequency: incidence and prevalence
  • Study design
  • The epidemiological concept of population
  • Theoretical, ethical, contextual, practical and critical foundations for future epidemiology
  • Variation in disease by time, place and person: A framework for analysis
  • Variation: role of error, bias and confounding
  • What is Epidemiology?
  • What is Epidemiology? In Spanish 18441 translated by Nicolas Padilla

External links

  • (free) Book on CHD in South Asians - Authors Kiran C R Patel, Raj S Bhopal
  • South Asian Health Foundation website

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Professor Raj Bhopal, CBE Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine Public Health Sciences section Centre for Population Health Sciences The University of Edinburgh

See also

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  • The Golden Lectures of Global Health