Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care, Fifth Edition (Paperback, 5, Revised)

Section I: Population Health

Chapter 1: Populations

a. Community

b. Region

c. Country

d. Global

e. Special populations

Chapter 2: Metrics

a. Prevalence

b. Incidence rate

c. Mortality rate

d. Infant mortality

e. Life expectancy

f. Years of potential life lost

g. Disability-adjusted life years

Chapter 3: Patterns of Occurrence

a. Age

b. Race/ethnicity

c. Gender

d. Geographic

e. Temporal

Chapter 4: Global Burden of Disease

a. Study design and goals

b. Mortality patterns

c. Healthy life expectancy

d. Disability-adjusted life years

e. Risk factors

Chapter 5: Social Determinants of Health

a. Definition

b. Whitehall Study

c. Education

d. Income

e. Housing

f. Food security

g. Physical and social environment

Chapter 6: Health Disparities

a. Health Inequities

b. Social determinants

c. Culture

d. Discrimination

e. Access to care

f. Quality of care

Section II. Collecting Evidence for Medical Practice

Chapter 7: Clinical trials

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Randomization

d. Blinding

e. Analysis

f. Sample size

g. Limitations

Chapter 8: Cohort studies

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Exposure assessment

d. Analysis

e. Limitations

Chapter 9: Case-control studies

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Matching

d. Exposure assessment

e. Analysis

f. Limitations

Chapter 10: Diagnostic tests

a. Sensitivity and specificity

b. Positive and negative predictive value

c. Likelihood ratios

d. ROC Curves

e. Limitations

Section III. Assessing Evidence for Medical Practice

Chapter 11: Comparative effectiveness

a. Definition

b. Objectives

c. Approaches

d. Systematic reviews

e. PICOTS principles

Chapter 12: Planning a review

a. Selecting a topic

b. Key informants

c. Analytic framework

Chapter 13: Finding evidence

a. Study eligibility

b. Types of studies

c. Grey literature

d. Possible bias

e. Search process

f. Extracting data

g. Reporting methods

Chapter 14: Assessing the evidence

a. Data extraction

b. Study quality

c. Study applicability

d. Summary table

e. Evidence Maps

Chapter 15: Quantitative synthesis

a. Summary measures

b. Heterogeneous results

c. Subgroup analysis

d. Grading strength of evidence

e. Reporting results

Section IV: Translating Evidence into Medical Practice