EPID600, Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health

Instructors: Victor J. Schoenbach, Lorraine K. Alexander

University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Department of Epidemiology

Module Instructions and Case Studies

The case studies for EPID600 were for the most part the same for the Internet and Classroom courses through spring 2013. In that era, we invited students to submit their answers to a subset of the questions (marked with an asterisk) and asked the small groups to develop and submit “consensus” answers for grading. The instructor answers were distributed after all groups had submitted their answers. Case study answers are for your personal use and are not to be shared with others, since if people have the answers in advance, the educational value of the case study questions is compromised.

The outbreak investigation case study was provided in class (for the classroom course) and as an online exercise in Sakai (for the internet course). A recent version of the other case studies can be accessed from this page. The readings on which the case study questions are based are available either through public access (see websites listed in the instructions for each module) or the UNC-CH electronic journal collection (E-journal finder).

[Instructors: If you would like to use substantial parts of these case studies in teaching or for other purposes, kindly obtain permission from Victor_Schoenbach@unc.edu. Individual questions may be used without permission but with appropriate acknowledgement.]

1. Introduction (required case study questions)

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   Internet

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2. Studying populations

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3. Investigating disease outbreaks

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4. Critical review of epidemiologic studies

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5. Measuring disease: incidence and prevalence

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6. Natural history / population screening

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7. Study designs: Intervention studies

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8. Study designs: Cohort studies

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9. Study designs: Case-control studies

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10. Study designs: Cross-sectional and ecologic studies

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11. Error: Selection bias

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12. Error: Information bias

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13. Multicausality: Confounding

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14. Data analysis and interpretation, Causal inference

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15. Conclusion - Epidemiology and public health

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Schedule of classes

Recorded lectures

EPID600 home page

 

8/20/2012vs, 4/27/2017, 5/15/2017, 10/22/2018