Essential Epidemiology : An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780521177313 | 0521177316
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/31/2011
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A clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for all students and health professionals interested in health data. Using recent and classical examples, it covers both infectious and non-infectious diseases, giving students an understanding of the fundamental principles of epidemiology and its role in all areas of health monitoring and research.
The new edition of this popular textbook remains a clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for students in all areas of health. By emphasising the role of epid... MORE
The new edition of this popular textbook remains a clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for students in all areas of health. By emphasising the role of epid... MORE
| Epidemiology is ... | |
| How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency | |
| Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology | |
| Healthy research: study designs for public health | |
| Why? Linking exposure and disease | |
| Heads or tails?: The role of chance | |
| All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error | |
| Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding | ... MORE |
| Reading between the lines: reading and writing epidemiological papers | |
| Who sank the boat? Association and causation | |
| Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses | |
| Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters | |
| Watching not waiting: surveillance and epidemiological intelligence | |
| Prevention: better than cure? | |
| Early detection: what benefits at what cost? | |
| A final word ...;; Answers to questions | |
| Direct standardisation | |
| Standard populations | |
| Calculating cumulative incidence and lifetime risk from routine data | |
| Indirect standardisation | |
| Calculating life expectancy from a life table | |
| The Mantel-Haenszel method for calculating pooled odds ratios | |
| Formulae for calculating confidence intervals for common epidemiological measures | |
| Index | |
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