Epidemiology Kept Simply: Introduction to Traditional and Modern Epidemiology (3^rd Edition) Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013. By B. Burt Gerstman Click here for publisher�s website. Instructors: Please e-mail me if you need assistance or notice errors on this page. [email protected]

Errata

Transition Table � changes made in revising the second edition to this third edition

Formula Pamphlet

Chapter	Power Point Presentations	Labs & Case Studies You must be an instructor to get the password for keys to labs and case studies. Please send requests with information about the course you are teaching to [email protected].	Additional Exercises	Additional Links
1: Epidemiology past and present	chap1-eks-3ed.ppt	Lab:_The_epidemiologic_tradition (article: Terris 1979) [Epi tradition key]
2: Causal concepts	chap2-eks-3ed.ppt	Lab: Causal Concepts (Info about diseases: Salmonella, asthma, Gonorrhea, heart disease, HIV)		Rothman1976.pdf Doll1965.pdf Richard Doll video
3: Epidemiologic measures	chap3-eks-3ed.ppt	Lab: HIV trends in Zimbabwe (article: Gregson 2006; online supplement) [Zimbabwe key] Lab: Relating risk factors to health, simplified [Relating risk factors key] Lab: HPV & CIN (article: Koutsky 1992) [HPV/CIN key] Lab: Rate adjustment [Rate adjustment lab key]	New Exercises Chapter 3 New Exercises Ch 3 Key [password protected]	Formula Sheets
4: Descriptive epidemiology	chap4-eks-3ed.ppt	Lab:_War_on_cancer (articles: Bailar 1997 ; Kramer 1997; Letters) [War key] Lab:_Multiple_sclerosis (article: Bronnum-Hansen 1994) [Multiple Sclerosis key]
5: Introduction to study design	chap5-eks-3ed.ppt	Analytic study designs [Analytic designs key]
6: Experimental studies	chap6-eks-3ed.ppt	Lab:_CABG_v_PCI (article: Hlatky 2009) [CABG/PCI key] Lab: Drinking water intervention (article: Colford 2005) [Drinking water key]		Miettinen1989.pdf
7: Observational cohort studies	chap7-eks-3ed.ppt	Lab: Anger_prone personality and CHD (article: Williams 2001) [Anger prone key]	New Exercises Chapter 7.pdf
8: Case-control studies	chap8-eks-3ed.ppt	Lab:_Lung Cancer in Nonsmoking Women (article: Fontham 1991) Lab:_CIN & HPB: Interpretation (articles: NCI Fact Sheet; Schiffman 1993)  Lab:_The patch & thromboembolism (article: Cole2007.pdf)	New Exercises Chapter 8.pdf	Additional case-control formulas ORTHO EVRA causal inference
9: Error in epi research	chap9-eks-3ed.ppt	Sources of Error (V. Schoenbach) UNC Lab on Confounding (V. Schoenbach)		Vic's Chapter on Sources of Error
10: Screening for Disease	chap10-eks-3ed.ppt	Lab:_Agreement between two TB screening tests [TB screening key] [TB screening rubric] Lab: Screening for antibodies to HIV	New Exercises for Chapter 10.pdf
11: Infectious Disease Process	chap11-eks-3ed.ppt	Bioterrorism related Anthrax [Anthrax key]
12: Outbreak investigation		Rhyndale GIitis Outbreak Mecca GIitis Outbreak [Mecca key] Texarkana Measles Outbreak [Texarkana instructor notes]
13: Confidence Intervals & P Values
14 Mantel-Haenszel methods
15 Statistical interaction
16: Case definitions and disease classification
17 Survival analysis
18 Current life tables
19 Random distribution of cases
Appendix 4		Case study�cigarette smoking and lung cancer [Instructor notes] [Grading rubric]
Appendix 5		Case study�tampons and toxic shock [Instructor notes]

• Resources

o WinPepi (Great tool with excellent documentation; runs on Windows computers; must be downloaded and installed)

• OpenEpi (Excellent web-based calculator)
• UCB Public Heath 250A Webcasts
• UNC EPID600 web site
• America Schools of Public Helath MPH Core Competencies in Epidemiology
• Epidemiolog.net (Vic Schoenbach's site) 
• CDC Case Studies
• Data Files
• Rhynedale outbreak investigation: rhynedal.rec | rhynedal.dbf
• Survival analysis data used to illustrate concepts in Chapter 17: survival.sav
• Data for Exercise 17.1: elandtp159.sav
• Mecca food borne outbreak data set ../datasets/MECCA.xls