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Continuing education is available for certified public health educators, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, veterinarians, and public health professionals. This course covers basic epidemiology principles, concepts, and procedures useful in the surveillance and investigation of health-related states or events. What is epidemiology? This lesson is intended to answer those questions by describing what epidemiology is, how it has evolved and how it is used today, and what some of the key methods and concepts are. The focus is on epidemiology in public health practice, that is, the kind of epidemiology that is done at health departments. Now in its Fifth Edition, this best-selling text offers comprehensive coverage of all the major topics in introductory epidemiology. With extensive treatment of the heart of epidemiology–from study designs to descriptive epidemiology to quantitative measures–this reader-friendly text is accessible and interesting to a wide range of beginning students in all health-related disciplines.

This is an online version of a printed textbook. It is not intended to be an online course.

Refer to the book or to the electronic PDF versionCdc-pdf (511 pages) for printable versions of text, figures, and tables.

Describe key features and applications of descriptive and analytic epidemiology.
Calculate and interpret ratios, proportions, incidence rates, mortality rates, prevalence, and years of potential life lost.
Calculate and interpret mean, median, mode, ranges, variance, standard deviation, and confidence interval.
Prepare and apply tables, graphs, and charts such as arithmetic-scale line, scatter diagram, pie chart, and box plot.
Describe the processes, uses, and evaluation of public health surveillance.
Describe the steps of an outbreak investigation.

This course covers basic epidemiology principles, concepts, and procedures useful in the surveillance and investigation of health-related states or events. It is designed for federal, state, and local government health professionals and private sector health professionals who are responsible for disease surveillance or investigation. A basic understanding of the practices of public health and biostatistics is recommended.

Course Materials

The course materials consist of six lessons. Each lesson presents instructional text interspersed with relevant exercises that apply and test knowledge and skills gained.

Lesson One: Introduction to Epidemiology

Key features and applications of descriptive and analytic epidemiology

Lesson Two: Summarizing Data

Calculation and interpretation of mean, median, mode, ranges, variance, standard deviation, and confidence interval

Lesson Three: Measures of Risk

Calculation and interpretation of ratios, proportions, incidence rates, mortality rates, prevalence, and years of potential life lost

Lesson Four: Displaying Public Health Data

Preparation and application of tables, graphs, and charts such as arithmetic-scale line, histograms, pie chart, and box plot

Lesson Five: Public Health Surveillance

Processes, uses, and evaluation of public health surveillance in the United States

Lesson Six: Investigating an Outbreak

Steps of an outbreak investigation

What Is Public Health Practice

Glossary

A Glossary that defines the major terms used in the course is also provided at the end of Lesson Six.

In addition to the course materials, students may want to use the following:

A calculator with square root and logarithmic functions for some of the exercises.
A copy of Heymann, DL, ed. Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 18th edition, 2004, for reference. Available from the American Public Health Association (202) 777-2742.

Self-study courses are “self-paced.” We recommend that a lesson be completed within two weeks. To get the most out of this course, establish a regular time and method of study. Research has shown that these factors greatly influence learning ability.

Each lesson in the course consists of reading, exercises, and a self-assessment quiz.

Reading Assignments

Complete the assigned reading before attempting to answer the self-assessment questions. Read thoroughly and re-read for understanding as necessary. A casual reading may result in missing useful information which supports main themes. Assignments are designed to cover one or two major subject areas. However, as you progress, it is often necessary to combine previous learning to accomplish new skills. A review of previous lessons may be necessary. Frequent visits to the Glossary may also be useful.

Exercises

Exercises are included within each lesson to help you apply the lesson content. Some exercises may be more applicable to your workplace and background than others. You should review the answers to all exercises since the answers are very detailed. Answers to the exercises can be found at the end of each lesson. Your answers to these exercises are valuable study guides for the final examination.

Self-Assessment Quizzes

After completing the reading assignment, answer the self-assessment quizzes before continuing to the next lesson. Answers to the quizzes can be found at the end of the lesson. After passing all six lesson quizzes, you should be prepared for the final examination.

Self-assessment quizzes are open book.
Unless otherwise noted, choose ALL CORRECT answers.
Do not guess at the answer.
You should score at least 70% correct before continuing to the next lesson.

Tips for Answering Questions

Carefully read the question.
Note that it may ask, “Which is CORRECT?” as well as “Which is NOT CORRECT?” or “Which is the EXCEPTION?”
Read all the choices given.
One choice may be a correct statement, but another choice may be more nearly correct or complete for the question that is asked.

Final Examination and Course Evaluation

We recommend that you thoroughly review the questions included with each lesson. There is no final exam.

Course Evaluation

To do this, go to https://www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/ and register as a participant. You will then need to register for the course (SS1978) and complete the course evaluation online. Your comments are valuable to us and will help to revise the self-study course in the future.

A hard-copy of the text can be obtained from the Public Health Foundation. Specify Item No. SS1978 or SS1000 when ordering.

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Richard C. Dicker, MD, MSc, Lead Author, CDC/OWCD/CDD (retired)
Fátima Coronado, MD, MPH, CDC/OWCD/CDD
Denise Koo, MD, MPH, CDC/OWCD/CDD
Roy Gib

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