Essential Epidemiology: An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 4, 11/29/2019
EAN 9781108766807, ISBN10: 1108766803
Paperback, 504 pages, 25.4 x 19 x 2 cm
Language: English
Now in its fourth edition, Essential Epidemiology is an engaging and accessible introduction to the foundations of epidemiology. It addresses the study of infectious and chronic diseases, public health and clinical epidemiology, and the role of epidemiology in a range of health monitoring and research activities. Contemporary, historical and hypothetical examples enable students to engage with content, while mathematics is kept understandable with complex mathematics housed in optional material so the book remains accessible. With over ninety questions and answers to work through, this book is an essential resource for students, practitioners and anyone else who needs to interpret health data in their studies or work. Epidemiology's most important goal is to bring rigour to the collection, analysis and interpretation of health data to improve health on a global scale; Essential Epidemiology provides readers the tools to achieve that goal.
1. Epidemiology is …
2. How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency
3. Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology
4. Healthy research
study designs for public health
5. Why? Linking exposure and disease
6. Heads or tails
the role of chance
7. All that glitters is not gold
the problem of error
8. Muddied waters
the challenge of confounding
9. Reading between the lines
reading and writing epidemiological papers
10. Who sank the boat? Association and causation
11. Assembling the building blocks
reviews and their uses
12. Surveillance
collecting health-related data for epidemiological intelligence and public health action with Martyn Kirk
13. Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters with Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh
14. Prevention
better than cure?
15. Early detection
what benefits at what cost?
16. Epidemiology and the public's health.