Essential Epidemiology: An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals 3rd Edition (eBook PDF)

Essential Epidemiology: An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals 3rd Edition (eBook PDF) – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1107529158
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1107529151
• Author: Penny Webb, Chris Bain, Andrew Page

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.

Table contents:

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

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