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Essential Epidemiology
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Taking a practical view with examples from all areas of health, the third edition of this textbook provides a clear, contemporary introduction to epidemiology.
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Taking a practical approach and supported by global examples from all areas of health, the new edition of this popular and highly commended textbook has been updated to reflect current epidemiological thinking and teaching. Based on feedback from teachers and students, material has been reordered to better suit courses and reflect the underlying logic and purpose of epidemiology.• Provides students with a rounded picture of the field by emphasizing the commonalities across different areas of epidemiology, including clinical epidemiology, and highlighting the key role of epidemiology in public health• Avoids complex mathematics by restricting this to optional material, thereby keeping the book accessible to students from non-quantitative backgrounds • Integrated and supplementary questions help students to reinforce concepts• A wealth of online material is available at www.cambridge.org/essential_epidemiology, including additional questions, advanced material for key concepts, recommendations for further reading, links to useful websites and slides for teaching, supporting both students and teachers.
| Author | Penny Webb , Chris Bain , Andrew Page |
|---|---|
| Table Of Content | Preface 1. Epidemiology is … 2. How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency 3. Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology 4. Healthy research: study designs for public health 5. Why? Linking exposure and disease 6. Heads or tails: the role of chance 7. All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error 8. Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding 9. Reading between the lines: reading and writing epidemiological papers 10. Who sank the boat? Association and causation 11. Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses 12. Surveillance: collecting health-related data for epidemiological intelligence and public health action Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh 13. Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh 14. Prevention: better than cure? 15. Early detection: what benefits at what cost? 16. Epidemiology and the public's health Answers to questions Appendix 1. Direct standardisation Appendix 2. Standard populations Appendix 3. Calculating risk and lifetime risk from routine data Appendix 4. Indirect standardisation Appendix 5. Calculating life expectancy from a life table Appendix 6. Why the odds ratio approximates the relative risk for a rare disease Appendix 7. Formulae for calculating confidence intervals for common epidemiological measures Appendix 8. The Mantel–Haenszel method for calculating pooled odds ratios Glossary Index. |
| Format | Paperback |
| Publish Date | 12 Dec 2016 |
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