An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals

• Main Authors: Olsen, Jr̜n. (Author), Christensen, Kaare. (Author), Murray, Jeff. (Author), Ekbom, Anders. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health, 1
• Subjects: Medicine.; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1497-2

An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals Jorn Olsen, Kaare Christensen, Jeff Murray, and Anders Ekbom Who gets sick? What factors<U+0014>genetic, environmental, social<U+0014>contribute to their illness? Easy enough to ask, but the answers are becoming increasingly compli...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Descriptive Epidemiology
• Measures of Disease Occurence
• Measures of Effect
• Standardization
• Causes of Diseases
• Descriptive Epidemiology in Public Healht
• Descriptive Epidemiology in Genetic Epidemiology
• Descriptive Epidemiology in Clinical Epidemiology
• Part II: Analytical Epidemiology
• Design Options
• Follow-Up Studies
• Case-Control Studies
• Design Options in Public Health
• Design Options in Genetic Epidemiology
• Design Options in Clinical Epidemiology
• Making Inference and Making Decisions
• Part III: Sources of Error
• Confounding and Bias
• Confounding
• Information Bias
• Selection Bias
• Bias and Confounding in Public Health
• Bias and Confounding in Genetic Epidemiology
• Bias and Confounding in Clinical Epidemiology
• Part IV: Statistics in Epidemiology
• P Values
• Calculating Confidence Limits.