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Introduction to epidemiology: principles and objectives
* Health demography in brief
* Sources of epidemiological data
* Disease frequency measures: risks, rates, proportions
* The measures of association
* Types of epidemiological studies: observational and experimental studies, descriptive and analytical studies, study design
* The descriptive studies: geographical distribution and temporal trend of diseases
* Correlation studies
* Cross-sectional studies
* The analytical studies: a cohort and case-control
* Experimental studies