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Epidemiology / Leon Gordis

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Saunders, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: Third editionDescription: xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0721603262
  • 9780721603261
  • 1416025308
  • 9781416025306
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.4/ 21 GOR
LOC classification:
  • RA651 .G58 2004
NLM classification:
  • 2004 G-285
  • WA 105
Contents:
The dynamics of disease transmission -- Measuring the occurrence of disease : I. Morbidity -- Measuring the occurrence of disease: II. Mortality -- Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests -- The natural history of disease : ways of expressing prognosis -- Assessing the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic measures : randomized trials -- Randomized trials : some further issues -- Cohort studies -- Case-control and cross-sectional studies -- 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 the evaluation of screening programs -- Epidemiology and public policy -- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology
Summary: This text teaches the basic principles and methods of epidemiology. Both the underlying concepts as well as the practical uses of epidemiology in both public health and clinical practice are emphasised
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Includes bibliographical references and index

The dynamics of disease transmission -- Measuring the occurrence of disease : I. Morbidity -- Measuring the occurrence of disease: II. Mortality -- Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests -- The natural history of disease : ways of expressing prognosis -- Assessing the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic measures : randomized trials -- Randomized trials : some further issues -- Cohort studies -- Case-control and cross-sectional studies -- 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 the evaluation of screening programs -- Epidemiology and public policy -- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology

This text teaches the basic principles and methods of epidemiology. Both the underlying concepts as well as the practical uses of epidemiology in both public health and clinical practice are emphasised

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