- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introducing the history of epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Important concepts in epidemiology
- Chapter 3 Study design
- Chapter 4 Statistics in epidemiology
- Chapter 5 Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods
- Chapter 6 Questionnaires in epidemiology
- Chapter 7 Environment
- Chapter 8 Occupational epidemiology
- Chapter 9 Life course epidemiology
- Chapter 10 Pharmacoepidemiology
- Chapter 11 Nutritional epidemiology
- Chapter 12 Genetic epidemiology
- Chapter 13 Teaching molecular epidemiology
- Chapter 14 Social inequalities in health
- Chapter 15 Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom
- Chapter 16 Infectious disease epidemiology
- Chapter 17 Cancer epidemiology
- Chapter 18 Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology
- Chapter 19 Neurologic diseases
- Chapter 20 Reproductive epidemiology
- Chapter 21 Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology
- Chapter 22 Epidemiology of injuries
- Chapter 23 Dental epidemiology
- Chapter 24 Clinical epidemiology
- Chapter 25 Study of clustering and outbreaks
- Chapter 26 Medical databases
- Chapter 27 Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom
- Chapter 28 Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology
- Index
Occupational epidemiology
Occupational epidemiology
- Chapter:
- (p.105) Chapter 8 Occupational epidemiology
- Source:
- Teaching Epidemiology
- Author(s):
Neil Pearce
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The study design options in occupational epidemiology are the same as for other fields of epidemiology, but the emphases given to specific study designs, and the methodological issues involved, may differ. Therefore, much of the formal content of an occupational epidemiology course may cover the same general topics as for a general epidemiology course; however, the detailed content will usually differ considerably. It is useful to teach these methods in the context of developing a research protocol and reporting on research findings. This can be done as an individual activity but is often more valuable as a group activity. Thus, early in the course, the students can be divided into groups, which can hold regular meetings to develop a research question and design an appropriate study. This approach can be applied to almost any course at any level, with appropriate variations in the amount of detail and methodological rigour required.
Keywords: study design, occupational epidemiology, methodological issues, group activity, research protocol
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introducing the history of epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Important concepts in epidemiology
- Chapter 3 Study design
- Chapter 4 Statistics in epidemiology
- Chapter 5 Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods
- Chapter 6 Questionnaires in epidemiology
- Chapter 7 Environment
- Chapter 8 Occupational epidemiology
- Chapter 9 Life course epidemiology
- Chapter 10 Pharmacoepidemiology
- Chapter 11 Nutritional epidemiology
- Chapter 12 Genetic epidemiology
- Chapter 13 Teaching molecular epidemiology
- Chapter 14 Social inequalities in health
- Chapter 15 Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom
- Chapter 16 Infectious disease epidemiology
- Chapter 17 Cancer epidemiology
- Chapter 18 Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology
- Chapter 19 Neurologic diseases
- Chapter 20 Reproductive epidemiology
- Chapter 21 Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology
- Chapter 22 Epidemiology of injuries
- Chapter 23 Dental epidemiology
- Chapter 24 Clinical epidemiology
- Chapter 25 Study of clustering and outbreaks
- Chapter 26 Medical databases
- Chapter 27 Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom
- Chapter 28 Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology
- Index