Ch. 1. Foundations of epidemiology -- Ch. 2. Practical disease concepts in epidemiology -- Ch. 3. Selected historical developments of epidemiology -- Ch. 4. Epidemiological measures of health status: mortality - rates and ratios -- Ch. 5. Epidemiological measures of health status: morbidity - rates and ratios -- Ch. 6. Epidemiology vital statistics and health status indicators -- Ch. 7. Descriptive statistics in epidemiology -- Ch. 8. Research methods, study design, and analytic studies -- Ch. 9. Time, place, and person -- Ch. 10. Observational methodology, association, and causality development --Ch. 11. Developing and conducting investigations and studies -- Ch. 12. Behavioral and chronic disease epidemiology