Experimental design. Evidence-based medicine. Observational and experimental studies. Design of a scientific study. Assessment of a scientific article. Population and sample. Sampling techniques. Hypothesis test. Correlation and regression.
Definition of epidemiology. Historical evolution of epidemiology. Source of data. Demographic data. Measurement in epidemiology. Direct and indirect standardization. Descriptive epidemiology. Analytic epidemiology. Rates and risk in epidemiology. Attributable risk. Cross-sectional studies and sampling surveys. Cohort studies.Introduction to bias and confounding. Experimental epidemiology. Clinical trials.