Formal title: Epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Basic epidemiologic concepts and principles -- Epidemiologic data me asurements -- Epidemiologic surveillance and epidemic outbreak investig ation -- The study of risk factors and causation -- Common research des igns and issues in epidemiology -- Assessment of risk and benefit in ep idemiologic studies -- Understanding the quality of data in clinical me dicine -- Statistical foundations of clinical decisions -- Describing v ariation in data -- Statistical inference and hypothesis testing -- Biv ariate analysis -- Applying statistics to trial design: sample size, ra ndomization, and control for multiple hypotheses -- Multivariable analy sis -- Introduction to preventive medicine -- Methods of primary preven tion: health promotion -- Principles and practice of secondary preventi on -- Methods of tertiary prevention -- Clinical preventive services (U nited States Preventive Services Task Force) -- Chronic disease prevent ion -- Prevention of infectious diseases -- Mental and behavioral healt h -- Occupational medicine -- Birth outcomes: a global perspective -- I ntroduction to public health -- Public health system: structure and fun ction -- Public health practice in communities -- Disaster epidemiology and surveillance -- Heatlh management, health administration, and qual ity improvement -- Health care organization, policy, and financing -- O ne health: interdependence of people, other species, and the planet.