The third edition provides an update of all chapters of the second edition and includes additional new chapters to account for recent developments in the field. All authors of the chapters of the first edition (regular font style) are to update their chapters where reasonable. All new chapters of the second edition (20, italicized) are peer-reviewed and the authors are asked to revise their chapters following the suggestions of the reviewers. If an author is no longer able or willing to continue his/her work, the Editors are to search for the most suitable replacement. In addition, some new chapters (11, marked TBD) are envisaged (author names are suggestions; they have not been asked yet). 1 An Introduction to Epidemiology -- W Ahrens, K Krickeberg, I Pigeot Part I Concepts and Designs in Epidemiology 2 History of Epidemiological Methods and Concepts -- A Morabia 3 Basic Concepts -- KJ Rothman, S Greenland 4 Rates, Risks, Measures of Association and Impact -- J Benichou, M Palta 5 Descriptive Studies -- F Bray, DM Parkin 6 Cohort Studies -- AB Miller, DC Goff Jr, K Bammann, P Wild 7 Case-Control Studies -- NE Breslow 8 Modern Epidemiological Study Designs -- PH Kass TBD Veterinary Epidemiology -- L Kreienbrock + N/A 9 Intervention Trials -- S Franceschi, M Plummer 10 Cluster Randomized Trials -- MJ Campbell 11 Community-Based Health Promotion -- JW Farquhar TBD Systems-Oriented Approach to NCD Prevention -- H Rutter, B Swinburn 12 Internet-Based Epidemiology -- L Richiardi, C Pizzi, D Paolotti TBD Digital Epidemiology -- W Dixon TBD Global Health -- H Zeeb TBD Interpretation of Study Results -- J Ioannidis Part II Methodological Approaches in Epidemiology 13 Design and Planning of Epidemiological Studies -- W Ahrens, I Pigeot, P Wild 14 Quality Control and Good Epidemiological Practice -- G Neta, JM Samet, P Rajaraman 15 Epidemiological Field Work in Population-Based Studies -- A Fink 16 Exposure Assessment -- S Cordier, PA Stewart 17 Misclassification -- P Gustafson, S Greenland 18 Confounding and Interaction -- N Pearce, S Greenland 19 Sensitivity Analysis and Bias Analysis -- S Greenland 20 Use of Health Registers -- R Sund, M Gissler, T Hakulinen, M Rosén 21 Emergency and Disaster Health Surveillance -- ST Cookson, JW Buehler 22 Screening -- AB Miller 23 Epidemiology in Developing Countries -- K Krickeberg, Anita Kar, AK Chakraborty 24 Health Services Research -- T Schäfer, CA Gericke, R Busse 25 Ethical Aspects of Epidemiological Research -- HG Leufkens, JJM van Delden Part III Statistical Methods in Epidemiology 26 Statistical Inference -- JF Bithell 27 Data Management in Epidemiology -- H Pohlabeln, A Reineke, W Schill 28 Sample Size Determination in Epidemiological Studies -- JD Elashoff, S Lemeshow 29 Analysis of Continuous Covariates and Dose-Effect Analysis -- H Becher 30 Regression Methods for Epidemiological Analysis -- S Greenland 31 Bayesian Methods in Epidemiology -- L Held 32 Survival Analysis -- PD Sasieni, AR Brentnall 33 Measurement Error -- JS Buzas, LA Stefanski, TD Tosteson 34 Missing Data -- G Molenberghs, C Beunckens, I Jansen, H Thijs, G Verbeke, MG Kenward 35 Generalized Estimating Equations -- A Ziegler, M Vens 36 Meta-Analysis in Epidemiology -- M Blettner, U Krahn, P Schlattmann 37 Geographical Epidemiology -- JF Bithell 38 Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology -- H Bickeböller, DC Thomas 39 Directed Acyclic Graphs -- R Foraita, J Spallek, H Zeeb TBD Causal Discovery in Observational Studies -- V Didelez TBD Longitudinal Data Analysis -- P Diggle Part IV Exposure-Oriented Epidemiology 40 Life Course Epidemiology -- Y Ben-Shlomo, G Mishra, D Kuh 41 Social Epidemiology -- T Chandola, M Kumari, M Marmot 42 Occupational Epidemiology -- F Merletti, D Mirabelli, L Richiardi 43 Environmental Epidemiology -- L Kreienbrock 44 Nutritional Epidemiology -- H Boeing, BM Margetts 45 Reproductive Epidemiology -- J Olsen, O Basso TBD Applied Genetic Epidemiology -- C van Duijn TBD Gun Violence Epidemiology -- A Rowhani-Rahbar 46 Molecular Epidemiology -- SM Torres, E Erdei, M Berwick, G Matullo, P Vineis 47 Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Health Care -- HJ Schünemann, GH Guyatt 48 Pharmacoepidemiology -- E Garbe, S Suissa 49 Physical Activity Epidemiology -- D Schmid, MF Leitzmann 50 Radiation Epidemiology -- H Zeeb, H Merzenich, H Wicke, M Blettner Part V Outcome-Oriented Epidemiology 51 Infectious Disease Epidemiology -- S Straif-Bourgeois, R Ratard, M Kretzschmar 52 Cardiovascular Health and Disease -- DR Labarthe 53 Cancer Epidemiology -- P Boffetta 54 Musculoskeletal Disorders -- H Riihimäki 55 Epidemiology of Obesity -- BK Kit, CL Ogden, KM Flegal 56 Epidemiology of Respiratory Allergies and Asthma -- J Douwes, N Pearce 57 Epidemiology of Dental Diseases -- DI Conway, AD McMahon, D Robertson, LMD Macpherson 58 Epidemiology of Digestive Diseases -- A Timmer, LR Sutherland 59 Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders -- SL Buka, EW Viscidi, ES Susser 60 Epidemiology of Diabetes -- MB Schulze, FB Hu TBD Epidemiology of Neurological Disorders -- VL Feigin, T Vos TBD Epidemiology of Aging -- AB Newman, JA Cauley.