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Getting Started with Epidemiology
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5 Sections
40 Lessons
10 Weeks
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Chapter 1: Entering the World of Epidemiology
5
1.1
Introducing Epidemiology
10 mins
1.2
Recognizing How Numbers Can Help Study Disease
10 mins
1.3
Focusing on Prevention Rather Than a Cure
10 mins
1.4
Delving into Study Finding
10 mins
1.5
Figuring Out What You Know about Epidemiology: Some Q&As
10 mins
Chapter 2: Epidemiology 101 — Understanding the Basics
7
2.1
Defining Epidemiology — What to Expect from Your Coursework and Beyond
10 mins
2.2
Realizing Why Epidemiology Is Important
10 mins
2.3
Understanding How Epidemiology Tools Are Applied
10 mins
2.4
Contrasting the Roles of a Physician and Epidemiologist
10 mins
2.5
Seeking Medications
10 mins
2.6
Considering How a Disease Is Transmitted
10 mins
2.7
Searching for Sources of Epidemiologic Data
10 mins
Chapter 3: Exploring the Development of Epidemiological Thinking
10
3.1
Meeting Hippocrates — the First Epidemiologist
10 mins
3.2
Tackling the Miasma Theory
10 mins
3.3
Examining Contributions to Medicine and Public Health – Thomas Sydenham
10 mins
3.4
Using Concepts of Environmental Epidemiology — Noah Webster
10 mins
3.5
The Germ Theory — Washing Hands Is Essential
10 mins
3.6
Working on Workers’ Diseases — Bernardino Ramazzini
10 mins
3.7
The Birth of Vital Statistics: No Labor Pains Involved
10 mins
3.8
Examining the Start of Epidemiology and Public Health in the United States
10 mins
3.9
Reforming Public Health in England
10 mins
3.10
Looking At Modern Epidemiology
10 mins
Chapter 4: Eyeing the Milestones in Public Health
7
4.1
Finding the Treatment of Scurvy — James Lind
10 mins
4.2
Discovering Sources of Cholera in London’s Golden Square — John Snow
10 mins
4.3
Uncovering Causes of Pellagra — Joseph Goldberger
10 mins
4.4
Describing the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
10 mins
4.5
Eradicating Smallpox
10 mins
4.6
Finding Smoking as a Cause of Lung Cancer
10 mins
4.7
Feeling the Beat of the Framingham Heart Study
10 mins
Chapter 5: Recognizing Diseases and Controlling Them
11
5.1
Identifying the Modes of Transmission
10 mins
5.2
Eyeing the Chain of Infection: Can You Break It?
10 mins
5.3
Examining the Natural History of Disease
10 mins
5.4
Listing Common Notifiable Diseases
10 mins
5.5
Controlling Waterborne Diseases
10 mins
5.6
Tackling Problems of Airborne Infections
10 mins
5.7
Curving Vector-Borne Diseases
10 mins
5.8
Limiting Parasitic Infections
10 mins
5.9
Controlling Sexually Transmitted Infections
10 mins
5.10
Dealing With Emerging Infectious Diseases
10 mins
5.11
Identifying Diseases Caused by Heavy Metals
10 mins
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