Table of Contents

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 asse

About the Author

Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Cincinnati School of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio



W. Dana Flanders, MD, DSc
Professor
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia



John William Eley, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia



John R. Boring, III, PhD
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia