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HLTH 3300: Community Health Epidemiology (sec. 100) Spring 2015 Study Guide for Final Exam Final Exam (sec. 100): Thursday, April 30, at 10:10 AM. 1. Epidemiology. Epidemiologic reasoning. Person. Place. Time. 2. Epidemiologic transition. 3. Population size determinants. 4. History of epidemiology. 5. Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. 6. Modern criteria of causality. 7. Presentation of data in epidemiology. Types of variables. 8. Measures of disease frequency. Prevalence and incidence. Cumulative incidence. Incidence density (rate). 9. Measures of association. Relative risk calculated with count data (cumulative incidence ratio) and with person-years data (rate ratio). Odds ratio. Attributable risk (cumulative incidence difference). 10. Vital statistics. Public health surveillance. Sources and quality of epidemiologic data. 11. Case reports and case series. 12. Descriptive and analytical epidemiologic studies. 13. Descriptive studies. Ecological studies. Cross-sectional studies. Strengths and limitations. 14. Analytical studies. Cohort studies. Case-control studies. Strengths and limitations. 15. Intervention studies. Clinical trials. Community trials. 16. Sources of distortion. Confounding. Bias. Random error (chance). 17. Confounding. Simpson’s paradox. 18. Bias. Selection bias. Observation (information) bias. 19. Bias by direction: towards the null, away from the null, cross-over bias. 20. Ethics in epidemiology. Nuremberg trials. Declaration of Helsinki. Tuskegee syphilis study. Informed consent.

21. Epidemiology of infectious diseases. Epidemiologic triangle. 22. Immunity: non-specific (innate) and specific (adaptive). 23. Specific immunity. Active and passive immunity. Natural and artificial immunity. 24. Outbreak investigation. Incubation period. Attack rate. 25. Screening vs. ultimate confirmation of the diagnosis. What makes a disease suitable for screening? Examples of screening programs. Examples of bias to which the evaluation of a screening program is vulnerable. 26. Epidemiology and health policy decision-making. Measurements of health care accessibility. 27. Applications of epidemiology to other areas. Environmental epidemiology. Occupational epidemiology. Nutritional epidemiology. Give examples of exposure measurement in these areas of epidemiology (e.g., environmental and occupational exposure or dietary exposure measurement)....