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 Session Six: Environmental Epidemiology

Text Readings: Aldrich and Griffith's (1993) Environmental Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, Chapters 1- 3.
Web Readings: Environmental Epidemiology for the Uninitiated

What Effects Can the Environment Have on Health?  

Association and Cause

Hazard & Risk

Advances in Estimating and Predicting Health Effects from Exposure to Environmental Toxicants    

Topics: Environmental Epidemiology Overview / Define Key Epidemiological Concepts / Epidemiological Measurement / Epidemiological Approaches / Designs for Epidemiologic Research / Identifying & Accounting for Measurement Error / Approaches for Determining Risk / Determining Causality
Homework for Session Seven
  1. Please enumerate the postulates of Henle-Koch.
  2. Also describe and discuss the Alfred Evans Criteria for Causation.
  3. Finally, from pages 42-43 of the Talbott & Craun text, discuss the selected Bradford-Hill postulates and explain how they relate to environmental epidemiology.
Additional Resources You may find the article Review of Extant Community-Based Epidemiologic Studies on Health Effects interesting to the point that the article underscores a number of  salient points that pertains to epidemiological research. Alternately, you may go to the Epidemiology Super-Course site to learn even more about epidemiological concepts.

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