Welcome to the Essential Epidemiology website.
Instructor resources
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Resources include:
- Chapter 11 critical appraisal exercise and suggested answer
- PowerPoint® slides
Student resources
The following resources are available within the VitalSource eBook, accessible via the details on the textbook’s inside front cover. Interactive versions of both these and the print book’s questions can be accessed in the VitalSource format.
Resources include:
- Additional content
- Questions: additional short-answer questions and multiple-choice questions
- Answers: the questions are repeated in these documents for your convenience
- Downloadables
These resources are available to users of the book and require a username and password.
- The username is: epidemiology
- The password can be found in Chapter 3 of the book, and is the second word under the heading ‘Morbidity data’ (page 75 of the print book).
Files can be downloaded individually or by chapter using the links below, or in one zip file.
Chapter 1 Epidemiology is…
Chapter 2 How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency
Chapter 3 Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology
Chapter 4 Healthy research: Study designs for public health
Chapter 5 Why? Linking exposure and disease
Chapter 6 Heads or tails? The role of chance
Chapter 7 All that glitters is not gold: The problem of error
Chapter 8 Muddied waters: The challenge of confounding
Chapter 9 Reading between the lines: Reading and writing epidemiological papers
Chapter 10 Who sank the boat? Association and causation
Chapter 11 Assembling the building blocks: Reviews and their uses
Chapter 12 Surveillance: Collecting health-related data for epidemiological intelligence and public health action
Chapter 13 Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters
- Additional content
- Questions
- Answers
- Downloadable: More about investigating outbreaks
- Downloadable: Tuberculosis case study