Epidemiology for public health practice /

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Main Author: Friis, Robert H.
Other Authors: Sellers, Thomas A.
Format: Book
Published: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2009.
Edition:4th ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • History and scope of epidemiology
  • Practical applications of epidemiology
  • Measures of morbidity and mortality used in epidemiology
  • Descriptive epidemiology: persons, place, time
  • Sources of data for use in epidemiology
  • Study designs: ecologic, cross-sectional, case-control
  • Study designs: cohort studies
  • Experimental study designs
  • Measures of effect
  • Data interpretation issues
  • Screening for disease in the community
  • Epidemiology of infectious diseases
  • Epidemiologic aspects of work and the environment
  • Molecular and genetic epidemiology
  • Psychologic, behavioral, and social epidemiology
  • Epidemiology as a profession.