Introduction to Epidemiology

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Dec 18, 2015 - Education - 340 pages
Introduction to Epidemiology, Seventh Edition is the ideal introductory text for the epidemiology student with minimal training in the biomedical sciences and statistics.
 

Contents

1 Foundations of Epidemiology
1
2 Historic Developments in Epidemiology
17
3 Practical Disease Concepts in Epidemiology
39
4 Design Strategies and Statistical Methods in Descriptive Epidemiology
67
5 Descriptive Epidemiology According to Person Place and Time
91
6 General Health and Population Indicators
121
7 Design Strategies and Statistical Methods in Analytic Epidemiology
141
8 Experimental Studies in Epidemiology
159
12 Clinical Epidemiology
231
I Case Studies
243
II Selected Statistical Techniques for Measuring Association Between Two Variables According to Variable Type
293
III Common Study Designs with Selected Measures of Association and Test Statistics
295
IV Summary of Confidence Intervals for Evaluating Selected Hypotheses
297
V Classification and Specialty Journals in Epidemiology
299
VI Epidemiologic Associations and Societies
301
VII Selected Answers to Chapter Questions
303

9 Causality
173
10 Field Epidemiology
193
11 Chronic Disease Epidemiology
211
Glossary
309
Index
323
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Brigham Young University, Utah

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