This lecture seeks to provide you with a basic understanding of the epidemiologic research designs of demographic, mortality and morbidity studies. The commonality for these designs resides in the use of data gathered from a variety of available sources, many of which are now available on the Internet. From a Public Health standpoint, these studies, if done consistently, provide valuable information in the control and spread of disease.

Sources for this lecture include:
Beaglehole, R, Bonita, R. & Kjelistrom, T. (1993) Basic Epidemiology. (WHO)
Lilienfield & Stolley's Foundation of Epidemiology.
Additional textbook resources can be found in my series of annotated bibliographies that you can access from the Annotated Bibliography Index