Resources > Epidemiology

General

Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
A full online textbook from the BMJ.


Occupational Epidemiology
An introduction from the Health, Environment and Work site.


Anatomy of an Epidemic
Interesting multimedia site.  General information about disease and specific epidemics. Dynamic animations showing the spread of the epidemics. Interactive quizzes to test your knowledge of disease and epidemics.


The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Epidemiology
A comprehensive directory of epidemiology sites on the web.


Online Course

An online 'Supercourse' in Epidemiology.
Conceived as a Global Health Network University this extensive resource offers multimedia lectures by a variety of academics from around the world. Most lectures are Powerpoint presentations.




Electronic Journals

International Journal of Epidemiology
Table of Contents and abstracts are freely available. Full-text access is restricted to current subscribers. 


Epidemiology
The Official Journal of The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology.


Weekly Epidemiological Record
The World Health Organization's newsletter in pdf format.


Discussion Groups

public-health
This list provides an informal forum to send public health information and to facilitate discussion on issues related to the health management and policy, community nutrition, environment health, occupational health and safety, health behavior, epidemiology and biostatistics, health information system, demography and population study, trend analysis of public health, and other public health problems. Anyone is welcome to join the Public Health's List


EPIDEMIO-L
Epidemiology and methodology discussion list. To subscribe send e-mail to:
listproc@cc.umontreal.ca with the command: SUBSCRIBE EPIDEMIO-L.


Tools & Demonstrations

A Dictionary of Epidemiology
An online dictionary of Epidemiology terms and definitions from the University of Cambridge.


Clinical Epidemiology Definitions
from the University of Alberta.


Data

World Health Organisation Statistical Information System


The Epidemiology Data Center
in Pittsburgh.


Software

Epi Info
A series of computer programs for word processing, data management and epidemiologic analysis,designed for public health professionals.


JAVA Epidemiology
Computer program from the University of Oregon.





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