Teaching Epidemiology: A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine

by Jørn Olsen (Editor), Naomi Greene (Editor), Rodolfo Saracci (Editor), Dimitrios Trichopoulos (Editor)

Overview

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. The new edition of Teaching Epidemiology helps you to do this and, by providing world-expert teachers' advice on how best to structure teaching, providing a unique insight into what has worked in their hands. This book will help you to tailor your own epidemiology teaching programme. The fourth edition of this established text has been fully revised and updated, drawing on new research findings and recently developed methods including research technologies in genetic epidemiology and method development in relation to causal analysis. Analytical tools provide teachers in the field with the skills to guide students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Each chapter in Teaching Epidemiology comprises key concepts in epidemiology, subject specific methodologies, and disease specific issues, to provide expert assistance in the teaching of a wide range of epidemiology courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191508028
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	03/26/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	544
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jørn Olsen is Professor of Epidemiology at AU, SDU and UCLA. Have published books and articles in several fields of epidemiology but most of the work has been in reproductive health. Naomi Greene holds a Ph.D in Epidemiology and MPH in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She has an extensive clinical background in maternal and child health which guides her research interest in lifecourse epidemiology and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Dimitrios Trichopoulos MD, PhD, is Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Member of the Athens Academy and President of the Hellenic Health Foundation, Greece. He has served as director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention; chairman of the Epidemiology Departments at the University of Athens and at Harvard; and adjunct professor of medical epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Dr. Trichopoulos has received several awards and distinctions, including honorary Doctorates, the Brinker International Award for Breast Cancer Clinical Research, the Julius Richmond Award, and the Medal of Honor of the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Table of 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 and Sherri O. Stuver: Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods
• Part 2: Exposure-oriented Epidemiology
• 6: Jakob Bue Bjørner 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: Ulisses Confalonieri and Shilu Tong: 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 Kelly K. Anderson: 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, Patricia Gerakopoulou and Constantine N. Antonopoulos: Epidemiology of injuries
• 23: Georgios Tsakos and Vibeke Baelum: Dental epidemiology
• 24: John A. Baron, Henrik Toft Sørensen, and Harold C. Sox, Jr.: Clinical epidemiology
• 25: Paul Elliott and Anna Hansell: Study of clustering and outbreaks
• 26: Henrik Toft Sørensen And John A. Baron: Registries and medical databases
• 27: J. H. Abrahamson: Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom
• Part 4: Pedagogies
• 28: Naomi Greene and Tarun Bhatnagar: Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology