Epidemiology /
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Elsevier/Saunders,
c2009.
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| Edizione: | 4th ed. |
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| Accesso online: | See |
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Sommario:
- Introduction
- The dynamics of disease transmission
- Measuring the occurrence of disease: I. Morbidity
- Measuring the occurrence of disease: II. Mortality
- Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests
- The natural history of disease: ways of expressing prognosis
- Assessing the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic measures: randomized trials
- Randomized trials: some further issues
- Cohort studies
- Case-control studies and other study designs
- Estimating risk: is there an association?
- More on risk: estimating the potential for prevention
- A pause for review: comparing cohort and case-control studies
- From association to causation: deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies
- More on causal inferences: bias, confounding, and interaction
- Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation
- Using epidemiology to evaluate health services
- The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs
- Epidemiology and public policy
- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology.