Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Chapter1 Structures for Asking Questions Epidemiological Methods Can Answer
Chapter2 Descriptive Methods
Chapter3 Experimental Designs as a Foundation for Observational Studies
Chapter4 Analytic Study Designs I : the Cohort Study
Chapter5 Analytic Study Designs II: The Case-Control Study
Chapter6 Analytic study designs III: The Cross-Sectional Study and Survey Data Collection
Chapter7 Applied Analytic Approaches
Chapter8 Confounding and Interaction
Chapter9 Threats to Internal and External Validity
Chapter10 Putting it All Together
Chapter11 Monitoring and Evaluation--where Epidemiology fits in
Chapter12 Outbreak Investigations
Chapter13 Surveillance Methods