Epidemiology
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The dynamics of disease transmission
- The occurrence of disease : I. Disease surveillance and measures of morbidity
- The occurrence of disease: II. Mortality and other measures of disease impact
- Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests
- The natural history of disease : ways of expressing prognosis
- Assessing preventive and therapeutic measures : randomized trials
- Randomized trials : some further issues
- Cohort studies
- Case-control studies and other study designs
- Estimating risk : is there an association?
- More on risk : estimating the potential for prevention
- A pause for review : comparing cohort and case-control studies
- From association to causation : deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies
- More on causal inferences : bias, confounding, and interaction
- Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation
- Using epidemiology to evaluate health services
- The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs
- Epidemiology and public policy
- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology.