Reading

Textbook:

Gordis, Leon. Epidemiology. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1996.

Course Packet:

Journal articles required for the case studies can be found in the course packet.

Both the textbook and course packet are available at the UNC Health Affairs Bookstore.  You may order online or call the bookstore at: 919-966-2208. When ordering the course pack please ask for the Distance Learning EPID 160 Alexander/Shy packet.


Reading Module 1: Introduction

Terris Milton.  The Epidemiologic Tradition.  The Wade Hampton Frost Lecture.  Public Health Reports.   94:203-209.

GOOD GROUP EXPERIENCES DON'T JUST HAPPEN!


Reading Module 2: Population Perspectives

Murray CJL, Lopez AD. Mortality by cause for 8 regions of the world: global burden of disease study. Lancet 1997. 49:1269-76.


Reading Module 3: Incidence and Prevalence

Knekt P., Reunanen A., Jarvinen R., et.al. Antioxidant vitamin intake and coronary mortality in a longitudinal population study. Am J Epid. 1994;139:1180-89.

Handout - "What is person time?" 


Reading Module 4: Sensitivity and Specificity

Read Chapter 4 in the textbook, Epidemiology, 1st edition, by Gordis.


Reading Module 5: Dynamics of Disease

Handout on "Epidemic Curves"


Reading Module 7: Clinical Trials

Payment P, Richardson L, Siemiatycki J, et al. (1991). A randomized trial to evaluate the risk of gastrointestinal disease due to consumption of drinking water meeting current microbiological standards. American Journal of Public Health. 81(6), 703-708.


Reading Module 8: Cohort Studies

Must A, Jacques PF, Dallal GE, et al. (1992). Long term morbidity and mortality of overweight adolescents. NEJM. 327(19), 1350-1355.

Bray GA. (1992). Adolescent overweight may be tempting fate. NEJM. 327(19), 1379- 1380.


Reading Module 9: Case-Control Studies

Fontham ETH, Correa P, Wu-Williams A, et al. (1991). Lung cancer in nonsmoking women: A multicenter case control study. Cancer Epid Biomarkers & Prev. 1:35-43. 


Reading Module 10: Cross-Sectional Studies

Klevens, RM, Giovino, GA and Peddicord JP.  The Association between veteran status and cigarette-smoking  behaviors.  Am J Prev Med 1995;11(4) 245-50.


Reading Module 12: Selection Bias

Penkower L et al. (1991). Behavioral, health and psychosocial factors and risk for HIV infection among sexually active homosexual men: The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. AJPH. 81, 194-196.

Peterman TA. (1995). Can we get people to participate in a study of sexual behavior? STD. 22, 164-168.

Handout - Selective Forces on Study Populations.


Reading Module 13: Information Bias

Gelberg et al. (1995). Fluoride exposure and childhood osteosarcoma: A case-control study. AJPH. 85(12), 1678-1683.


Reading Module 14: Confounding Bias

Handout on "confounding bias"


Reading Module 15: Guidelines For Causality

Women's Health Watch, Harvard Medical School, Cervical Dysplasia, 1995, pp. 4-5.

Schiffman MH, Bauer HM, Hoover RN, et al. Epidemiologic evidence showing that human papillomavirus infection causes most cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. J Natl Cancer Inst 1993; 85:958-964.

Millikan RC. Correspondence: Epidemiologic evidence showing that human papillomavirus infection causes most cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. J Natl Cancer Inst 1994, 86:392-393.