Field epidemiology
Subtitle: Field investigations of natural disasters and complex emergencies / Ron Waldman and Eric K. Noji
By: edited by Michael B. Gregg.
Contributors: Eric K. Noji, Ronald Waldman
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780195313802
Subjects: Epidemiology; Epidemics; Epidemiologic Methods; Epidemiology -- organization & administration
Description: The new edition of this classic text continues its mission of describing the application of basic epidemiologic principles in real time, place, and person to solve problems of an urgent or emergency nature. Based on decades of experience in both infectious and noninfectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this book describes in clear and practical terms the distinct approach, tasks, and actions needed for successful field investigations. Guidance is given on such issues as how to perform surveillance, manage and execute field investigatins, collect and analyze data, perform surveys, adapt a personal computer for field use, and communicate the findings. Specific advice is also given on such subjects as dealing with the media; investigations in health care, day care, and international settings; and the legal aspects of field studies. An entire chapter covers the proper collection, handling, and testing of infectious and noninfectious agents in the field. This edition contains new chapters on environmental investigations and immunization practices for the field epidemiologist. The boko is based both on science and experience. It deals with real problems, real places, and real people: nature's experiment rather than carefully designed studies in a laboratory or clinical setting. So, in the lexicon of the epidemiologist, the book addresses issues relating to observational- not experimental- epidemiology.
Notes: About the Author

Michael B. Gregg, M.D., was Director of the Viral Disease Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for ten years. He served as Editor of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for twenty-one years and was Deputy Director of the Epidmeiology Program Office at the CDC for nineteen years. In addition, he is the author of over eighty articles and collaborative reports in the field of epidemiology and public health.
Table of contents: title: I. Background; title: Field epidemiology defined / Richard A. Goodman and James W. Buehler; title: A brief review of the basic principles of epidemiology / Richard C. Dicker; title: Surveillance / Stephen B. Thacker and Guthrie S. Birkhead; title: II. The field investigation; title: Operational aspects of epidemiologic field investigations / Richard A. Goodman, James L. Hadler, and Duc J. Vugia; title: Conducting a field investigation / Michael B. Gregg; title: Surveys and sampling / Joan M. Herold; title: Using a computer for field investigations / Andrew G. Dean and Consuelo M. Beck-Sagué; title: Designing studies in the field / Richard C. Dicker; title: Describing the findings: descriptive epidemiology / Robert E. Fontaine and Richard A. Goodman; title: Analyzing and interpreting data / Richard C. Dicker; title: Developing interventions / Richard A. Goodman ... [et al.]; title: Communicating epidemiologic findings / Michael B. Gregg; title: Dealing with the public and the media / Bruce B. Dan; title: III. Special considerations; title: Legal considerations in surveillance and field epidemiology / Verla S. Neslund ... [et al.]; title: Immunization practices for the field epidemiologist / Harry F. Hull; title: Investigations in health-care settings / William R. Jarvis; title: Investigations in out-of-home child care settings / Ralph L. Cordell, Jonathan Kotch, and Michael Vernon; title: Field investigations of environmental epidemics / Ruth A. Etzel; title: Field investigations of occupational disease and injury / William Halperin and Douglas Trout; title: Field investigations from the state and local health department perspective / Jeffrey P. Davis and Guthrie S. Birkhead; title: Epidemiologic practices in low-income countries / Stanley O. Foster; title: Terrorism preparedness and emergency response for the field epidemiologist / Daniel M. Sosin and Richard E. Besser; title: Field investigations of natural disasters and complex emergencies / Ron Waldman and Eric K. Noji; title: Laboratory support for the epidemiologist in the field / Elaine W. Gunter, Joan S. Knapp, and Janet K. A. Nicholson.