Epidemiology
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 8, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195135541
First sentence: This book presents the basic concepts and methods of epidemiology.
Description: Begins with a brief, lucid discussion of casual thinking and causal inference and then takes the reader through the elements of epidemiology, focusing on the measures of disease occurrence and causal effects. With these building blocks in place, the reader learns how to design, analyze, and interpret epidemiologic research studies, and how to deal with the fundamental problems that epidemiologists face, including confounding, the role of chance, and the exploration of interactions. All these topics are layered on the foundation of basic principles presented in simple language, with numerous examples and questions for further thought.