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1. Introduction: Brief review of the history of epidemiology: health, health determinants, and basic methods.
2. Basic concepts in epidemiology:
a) Normality and pathological state in epidemiology
b) The natural history of the disease
c) Causality and causal reasoning in epidemiology.
3. Frequency measures in epidemiology:
a) Types of frequency measures
b) Prevalence and incidence
c) Measures of morbidity and mortality
d) Relationship between frequency measures
e) Basic demographic indicators used in health.
4. Measures of effect in epidemiology:
a) Association measures
b) Impact measures.
5. Sources of information in epidemiology:
a) General principles: Inference, precision and validity, confounding and/or modification effect
b) General typology of studies in epidemiology
c) Descriptive studies including bias
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