Case Studies in Occupational Epidemiology

This casebook is designed for use in courses on epidemiology or occupational epidemiology. The chapters are based on actual studies and are written by the principal investigators. They are divided into four parts: cohort studies case-control and proportionate mortality studiescross-sectional studies and surveillance and screening studies. A brief introduction to each part describes the study design and a statistical appendix is included so thatstudents can easily find the tools needed to answer analytical questions in the text. Questions in each chapter deal with study design data collection analysis and interpretation. Complete answers are provided at the end ofeach chapter. Data sets accompany many of the chapters and most of the analytical questions can be answered with a pocket calculator.