Teaching Epidemiology

Teaching Epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. Teaching Epidemiology third edition helps you to do this, and by providing the world-expert teacher's advice on how best to structure teaching gives a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands. The book will help you plan your own tailored teaching programme. The book is a guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level. Each chapter provides key concepts and a list of key references. Subject specific methodology and disease specific issues (from cancer to genetic epidemiology) are dealt with in details. There is also a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning. Provides advice from expert teachers around the world on how best to structure teaching, giving a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands Helps readers plan their own tailored teaching programme A thorough guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level Includes a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning New to this edition All chapters have been fully revised and expanded Jorn Olsen , Professor and Chair, UCLA School of Public Heath, California, USA and Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark, Rodolfo Saracci , Director of research in Epidemiology, National Council, Pisa, Italy; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Scientific consultant, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, and Dimitrios Trichopoulos , Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA CONTENTS Part 1: Context 1: Rodolfo Saracci: Introducing the history of epidemiology 2: Olli S. Miettinen: Important concepts in epidemiology 3: Jørn Olsen and Olga Basso: Study Design 4: Per Kragh Andersen: Statistics in epidemiology 5: Kenneth J. Rothman: Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods Part 2: Exposure Oriented Epidemiology 6: Jakob Bue Bjorner and Jørn Olsen: Questionnaires in epidemiology 7: Anders Ahlbom: Environment 8: Neil Pearce: Occupational epidemiology 9: Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Diana Kuh: Life course epidemiology 10: Susan Jick: Pharmacoepidemiology 11: Walter C. Willett: Nutritional epidemiology 12: Harry Campbell and Susan Service: Genetic epidemiology 13: Betsy Foxman: Teaching molecular epidemiology 14: Nancy Krieger: Social inequalities in health 15: Anthony J. McMichael And Ulisses Confalonieri: Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom Part 3: Outcome Oriented Epidemiology 16: Marc Lipsitch: Infectious disease epidemiology 17: Pagona Lagiou and Dimitrios Trichopoulos: Cancer epidemiology 18: Rebecca Fuhrer and Ezra Susser: Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology 19: C. A. Molgaard, A. L. Golbeck, and J. F. Rothrock: Neurologic diseases 20: Jørn Olsen and Ellen Aagaard Nøhr: Reproductive epidemiology 21: Josep M. Anto: Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology 22: Eleni Petridou, Evi Germeni and Mark Stevenson: Epidemiology of injuries 23: Flemming Scheutz and Georgios Tsakos: Dental epidemiology 24: John A. Baron and Henrik Toft Sørensen: Clinical epidemiology 25: Paul Elliott: Study of clustering and outbreaks 26: Japhet Killewo and Anita Sandström: Field studies in developing countries 27: Henrik Toft Sørensen And John A. Baron: Registries and medical databases 28: J.H. Abramson: Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom Part 4: Pedagogies 29: Charles Du V. Florey and Ralph R. Frerichs: Computer-assisted learning - principles and practice 30: Haroutune Armenian, Michael E. Thompson, And Jonathan Samet: Competency based curriculum in epidemiology 31: Naomi Greene And Tarun Bhatnagar: Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course in a department of epidemiology   Contributors: (Affiliations to follow) Rodolfo Saracci, Director of research in epidemiology, National Council, Pisa, Italy; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark; Scientific consultant, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France Olli S. Miettinen, McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Quebec, Canada Jørn Olsen, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Denmark Olga Basso, MD A3-05, Epidemiology Branch, NIEHS, USA Per Kragh Andersen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kenneth J. Rothman, Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, MA USA Jakob Bue Bjorner, Professor, National Research Center for the Working Environment, Denmark Anders Ahlbom, Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Neil Pearce, Director, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Susan Jick, Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, MA, USA Walter C. Willett, Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Harry Campbell, Professor, Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Vet Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Susan Service, Senior Statistician, Department of Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Betsy Foxman, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Center for Molecular Epidemiology and Training Program, University of Michigan, USA Nancy Krieger, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Anthony J McMichael, Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Marc Lipsitch, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Pagona Lagiou, Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Athens, Greece Rebecca Fuhrer, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Ezra Susser, Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health and Professor of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Columbia, New York, USA C. A. Molgaard, Professor and Chair, School of Public Health, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA A. L. Golbeck, Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public and Community Health Services, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA J. F. Rothrock, Professor and Vice-chair of Epidemiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Neurology, Birmingham, AL, USA Ellen Aagaard Nøhr, Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Denmark Josep M. Anto, Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL), Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain Eleni Petridou, Professor of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, Center for Research and Prevention of Injuries (CEREPRI), Unit of Preventive Medicine, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece Flemming Scheutz, Department of Community Oral Health and Pedodontics, Dental School, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark Georgios Tsakos, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UK John A. Baron, Professor of Medicine,and of Community & Family Medicine Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Evergreen Center, Lebanon, NH, USA Henrik Toft Sørensen, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark Paul Elliott, Head of Department, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK Japhet Killewo, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Anita Sandström, Executive Director, Southern African AIDS Trust, Johannesburg, South Africa J.H. Abramson, Department of Social Medicine, Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Herbrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Charles Du V. Florey, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK Ralph R. Frerichs, Professor Emeritus, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA Naomi Greene Tarun Bhatnagar Haroutune Armenian, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA