SESSION

CLASS NO.

TOPIC

TOPIC AREA 1: OVERVIEW OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

 translated by Nicolas Padilla

1.1

1  (week 1)

Nature and uses of epidemiology

 Introducción a la Epidemiología

1.2

2  (week 1)

Disease transmission and context

Transmisión de enfermedad y contexto

TOPIC AREA 2: MEASUREMENT OF DISEASE IN POPULATIONS

2.1a

3  (week 2)

Disease categorization and classification

Clasificación y categorización de enfermedades

2.1b

4  (week 3)

Population sampling

Muestreo de la población

2.2

5-6  (weeks 3,4)

Measures of disease frequency, association

2.3

7-8  (week 5)

Standardized rates and ratios, age/cohort/period analysis

Tasas y razones estandarizadas, Análisis edad/cohorte/periodo

2.4

9-10 (week 6)

Validity, reliability, screening for disease

Validez, integridad y monitoreo para la enfermedad

2.5

11 (week 7)

Survival and the life table

Tablas de Sobrevida y vida

TOPIC AREA 3: SOURCES AND TYPES OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA

3.1

13  (week 8)

Special session on how to computer search and use libraries and vital data systems

3.2

14  (week 8)

Vital data

 Morbidity data:  registries, surveillance

Datos vitales

Datos de morbilidad: registros, monitoreo

TOPIC AREA 4: EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY DESIGNS

4.1a

15  (week 9)

Study base and directionality

Base de estudios y direccionabilidad,

4.1b

16  (week 9)

Community surveys

encuestas comunitarias

4.2

17 (week 10)           

Randomized trials

Estudios aleatorizados

4.3

18-19 (weeks 10,11)

Cohort studies

4.4

20-21 (weeks 11,12)

Case-control studies

TOPIC AREA 5: DERIVING CAUSAL INFERENCES

5.1

22-23 (weeks 12,13)

Bias and confounding

5.2

24-25 (weeks 13,14)

Statistical association and causality