GSU Library Research Guides: Public Health: Online Program in Chronic Disease: Introduction to Epidemiology with Emphasis in Chronic Disease

Introduction to Epidemiology Syllabus and Readings

Suggested MeSH Terms

Some MeSH headings to get you started when searching PubMed.

-Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
-Causality
-Epidemiologic Methods
-Epidemiology
-Population Surveillance
-Reproducibility of Results
-Sentinel Surveillance
-Statistics as Topic

See also the MeSH entry of Public Health for additional headings.

Journals

Below are some journal titles related to Epidemiology. To find additional journals in the GSU Library collection, go to GIL-Find, the library catalog and change the pull-down menu to Journal Titles.

Web Resources

CDC Wonder
Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) -- provides access to a wide array of public health information resources of the CDC.
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Statistics and Tracking
A variety of databases from the CDC.
The Cornerstone of Public Health Practice: Public Health Surveillance, 1961–2011
From CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 50th anniversary issue, "Public Health Then and Now: Celebrating 50 Years of MMWR at CDC".
Data Briefs from the National Center for Health Statistics
Data Briefs are statistical publications that provide information about current public health topics in a straightforward format. Each report takes a complex data subject and summarizes it in text and graphics that provide readers with easily comprehensible information in a compact publication.
Fifty Years of Progress in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Control
From CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 50th anniversary issue, "Public Health Then and Now: Celebrating 50 Years of MMWR at CDC".
Tackling chronic disease in Europe. Strategies, interventions and challenges.
From the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies/World Health Organization.

Books @ Georgia State

Below are some titles related to Epidemiology with an Emphasis in Chronic Disease. To find additional books in the GSU Library collection, go to GIL-Find, the library catalog.