Table of Contents

1 What is Epidemiology?2 Quantifiying Disease in Populations3 Comparing Disease Rates4 Measurement Error and Bias5 Planning and Conducting a Survey6 Ecological Studies7 Longitudinal Studies8 Case-control and Cross Sectional Studies9 Experimental Studies10 Screening11 Outbreaks of Disease12 Reading Epidemiolgical ReportsFurther ReadingIndex

About the Author

David Coggon is the author of Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, 5th Edition, published by Wiley.

David James Purslove Barker CBE was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that foetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life.