Epidemiology of Infection
Principles of epidemiology as a basic science of preventive medicine are presented in this course. Selected infections of public health significance having different reservoirs and transmission routes are also discussed. (Even years, Term 4)
Lecture |
Topic |
Lecturer |
1 |
Epidemiological Concepts | * |
2 |
Descriptive Epidemiology: Person, Place, Time | * |
3 |
Epidemiologic Aspects of Infectious Disease | * |
4 |
Measurement of Morbidity | * |
5 |
Analytical Epidemiology I: Observational, cross-sectional, cohort, case-control, retrospective | * |
6 |
Analytical Epidemiology II: Prospective, historical prospective | * |
7 |
Analytical Epidemiology III: Concept of causality | * |
8 |
Analytical Epidemiology IV: Experimental trials | * |
9 |
Evaluation of Studies I: Statistical | * |
10 |
Evaluation of Studies II: Computer databases | * |
11 |
Environmental Epidemiology I: Detection of viruses | * |
12 |
Environmental Epidemiology II: Inactivation indicators | * |
13 |
Epidemiological Investigation | * |
14 |
Epidemiology of Infectons I: Respiratory | * |
15 |
Epidemiology of Infections II: Fecal-oral | * |
16 |
Epidemiology of Infections III: Sexual, transfusion, arthropod-borne, zoonoses | * |
17 |
Cancer Epidemiology | * |
18 |
Seroepidemiology and Surveillance | * |
19 |
Exam | * |
* The instructors are Adam, Hollinger, and Couch. Responsibility
for specific lecture topics has not yet been assigned.