Epidemiology
By: Leon Gordis.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Elsevier/Saunders
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781416040026
Subjects: Epidemiology; Epidemiology; Epidemiologic Methods
Description: This book provides an understanding of the key concepts in three fully updated sections that cover the epidemiologic approach to disease and intervention, the use of epidemiology to identify the causes of disease, and the application of epidemiology to evaluation and policy. Clear, practical graphs and charts, cartoons, and review questions with answers reinforce the text and aid in comprehension.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The dynamics of disease transmission; title: Measuring the occurrence of disease: I. Morbidity; title: Measuring the occurrence of disease: II. Mortality; title: Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests; title: The natural history of disease: ways of expressing prognosis; title: Assessing the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic measures: randomized trials; title: Randomized trials: some further issues; title: Cohort studies; title: Case-control studies and other study designs; title: Estimating risk: is there an association?; title: More on risk: estimating the potential for prevention; title: A pause for review: comparing cohort and case-control studies; title: From association to causation: deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies; title: More on causal inferences: bias, confounding, and interaction; title: Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation; title: Using epidemiology to evaluate health services; title: The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs; title: Epidemiology and public policy; title: Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology.