Methods of field epidemiology
By: Pia D. M. MacDonald
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning; APHA Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780763784591
Subjects: Clinical epidemiology; Methodology; Epidemiologic Methods; Disease Outbreaks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to outbreak investigations; title: Public health surveillance; title: Is a potential outbreak real?; title: Assembling and equipping an outbreak investigation team; title: Hypothesis generation and descriptive epidemiology; title: Epidemiological studies in outbreak investigations; title: Hypothesis-testing interviews; title: Data analysis; title: Writing an outbreak investigation report; title: Public health laboratorys role in field epidemiology/outbreak investigation; title: Environmental health components of an outbreak investigation; title: Investigating non-infectious health events in public health practice; title: Forensic epidemiology investigations; title: Geographic information systems for field epidemiology; title: Special considerations.