Epidemiology Specialist Training Course

Epidemiology in Action Course

Specialist training programs for African physicians.

789 www.cmj.hr Many African countries are liberal in accepting medical degrees and specialist qualifications acquired abroad. This in part stems from the lack of training programs on the African continent that can supply the required or near the required numbers of doctors to serve the populations. As the majority of African states are English-speaking, academic and professional qualifications ...

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Practice of Epidemiology Statistical Issues in Life Course Epidemiology

1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. 2 MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom. 3 Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, Unit...

Practice of Epidemiology Dynamic Path Analysis in Life-Course Epidemiology

Life-course epidemiology seeks to better understand the mechanisms that lead to the development of chronic diseases. An example is the mechanism leading from body size to coronary heart disease (CHD); one way to acquire a better understanding of this mechanism is to investigate to what extent it works through other risk factors. In this paper, the dynamic path analysis model is presented as a t...