Disease Detectives B/C

[Infinity Flat]

Hey, everyone! I got 1st at states with a mostly inexperienced partner, and my team qualified for nationals for the first time. I'd really like to do well, so I was wondering:
Does anyone have any good Epidemiology textbook recommendations?

[ichaelm]

I think I've said this before, but I definitely recommend a textbook called Modern Epidemiology. It has everything! It is basically THE epidemiology textbook.There's lots of great information there you just can't find on Google. Unfortunately my copy is missing at the moment, I think eta150 has it!

[Infinity Flat]

I think I've said this before, but I definitely recommend a textbook called Modern Epidemiology. It has everything! It is basically THE epidemiology textbook.There's lots of great information there you just can't find on Google. Unfortunately my copy is missing at the moment, I think eta150 has it!

Alright, great! The one by Rothman, right?

[The Eviscerator]

According to this website, case-control studies are "useful for studying rare conditions." That would make sense because case-control studies allow a researcher to set the prevalence; he/she starts out knowing who has the disease. I think that's probably the same thing as "studying rare exposures." However, it's also possible that the test writers intended a difference between "rare conditions" and "rare exposures." What do you think?

There is a pretty big difference between rare conditions and rare exposures as exposures are, ideally, what caused the condition. Therefore, you would need a lot of cases in order for the rare exposure to show up enough times that anything dealing with the rare exposures could be statistically significant. In order to get so many cases, an investigator would need to either spend a ton of money getting cases and controls or do an experimental study and still spend a lot of money.

[ichaelm]

I think I've said this before, but I definitely recommend a textbook called Modern Epidemiology. It has everything! It is basically THE epidemiology textbook.There's lots of great information there you just can't find on Google. Unfortunately my copy is missing at the moment, I think eta150 has it!

Alright, great! The one by Rothman, right?

Yep! I have the third edition.

[havenguy]

Does it have everything you need to know? Are there any tests you have taken that the textbook hasn't covered?

[The Eviscerator]

None of the Disease Detectives tests I've taken have included all things epidemiology, and that's including tests from nationals. Honestly, any textbook you pick will have more than enough information for this event.

[EpicFailure]

Does anyone have a good website on the modes of transmission? From what I've found, the three are: vehicle, vector and contact. However, on some tests, it asked for 5 modes.

[The Eviscerator]

Does anyone have a good website on the modes of transmission? From what I've found, the three are: vehicle, vector and contact. However, on some tests, it asked for 5 modes.

Yeah, a lot of different sources have different things...
You could also categorize them as direct, indirect, droplet, vector-borne, fecal-oral, airborne, etc.

[umador]

hopefully, if the subtopic is followed, we'll be primarily tested on foodborne (vehicle borne) illnesses, so fingers crossed that CDC will follow that