Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to outbreak investigations -- Public health surveillance -- Is a potential outbreak real? -- Assembling and equipping an outbreak investigation team -- Hypothesis generation and descriptive epidemiology -- Epidemiological studies in outbreak investigations -- Hypothesis-testing interviews -- Data analysis -- Writing an outbreak investigation report -- The public health laboratory's role in field epidemiology and outbreak investigation -- Environmental health components of an outbreak investigation -- Investigating noninfectious health events in public health practice -- Forensic epidemiology investigations -- Geographic information systems for field epidemiology -- Special considerations.