Essentials of epidemiology in public health /
"Tested in the authors' courses at Boston University and Harvard University, this Third Edition combines theory and practice in presenting traditional and new epidemiologic concepts. Broad in scope, the text opens with five chapters covering the basic epidemiologic concepts and data source...
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| Lingua: | English |
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Burlington, MA :
Jones & Bartlett Learning,
c2014.
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| Edizione: | 3rd ed. |
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Sommario:
- The approach and evolution of epidemiology
- Measures of disease frequency
- Comparing disease frequencies
- Sources of public health data
- Descriptive epidemiology
- Overview of epidemiologic study designs
- Experimental studies
- Cohort studies
- Case-control studies
- Bias
- Confounding
- Random error
- Effect measure modification
- Critical review of epidemiologic studies
- The epidemiologic approach to causation
- Screening in public health practice
- Ethics in research involving human participants
- Answers to chapter questions.