An introduction to epidemiology for health professionals
By: Jørn Olsen ... [et al.].
Series: Springer series on epidemiology and health
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781441914965; 9781441914972
Subjects: Epidemiology; Epidemiologic Methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Descriptive epidemiology; title: Measures of disease occurrence; title: Estimates of associations; title: Age standardization; title: Causes of diseases; title: Descriptive epidemiology in public health; title: Descriptive epidemiology in genetic epidemiology; title: Descriptive epidemiology in clinical epidemiology; title: Analytical epidemiology; title: Design options; title: Follow-up studies; title: Case-control studies; title: Cross-sectional study; title: Randomized controlled trial (RCT); title: Analytical epidemiology in public health; title: Analytical epidemiology in genetic epidemiology; title: Analytical epidemiology in clinical epidemiology; title: Sources of error; title: Confounding and bias; title: Confounding; title: Information bias; title: Selection bias; title: Making inference and making decisions; title: Sources of error in public health epidemiology; title: Sources of error in genetic epidemiology; title: Sources of error in clinical epidemiology; title: Statistics in epidemiology; title: P values; title: Calculating confidence intervals.