Concepts of Epidemiology: Integrating the ideas, theories, principles and methods of epidemiology - Softcover

Bhopal, Raj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199543143 ISBN 13: 9780199543144

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Epidemiology is the science that underpins health and health care, and is concerned with the pattern, frequency and causes of disease. This introductory text describes and illustrates epidemiology and its applications to policy making, health service planning, and health promotion. Raj Bhopal developed a conceptual approach to epidemiology in the first edition of this successful text, which involved a systematic focus on underlying concepts and fundamental principles, and this second edition expands upon this popular method. It emphasizes theories and principles, as the bedrock of methodology, countering the mounting criticism that epidemiology is an atheoretical discipline. The interdependence of epidemiological studies and their essential unit within a theoretical, technical and ethical framework is an important theme of this book.

The emphasis is on interactive learning throughout, with each chapter including learning objectives, both theoretical and numerical exercises, recent examination questions from relevant courses, and a summary. The text is richly illustrated, with detailed material summarised in tables. The book is written in plain language, with all the necessary technical and specialised terminology explained and defined in a glossary.

About this title

About the Author

Raj Bhopal is leader in the organisation of the World Congress of Epidemiology in Edinburgh in 2011.

Review

"Books that pursued the concepts and theories of the discipline have not been accessible to general epidemiology students, but this one is. It reaches students and stimulates thinking, and this second edition does this better than the first."--Doody's

"The didactic approach of this edition is a strength. The book has numerous embedded exercises that challenge readers to consider the implications and applications of the concepts that are discussed. Case studies are abundant, and the questions and answers that end the chapters should be particularly useful...Figures have been used creatively to explain key concepts...The range of topics is broad, updated, and appropriate for an introductory text."--American Journal of Epidemiology

"Raj Bhopal's book, Concepts of Epidemiology, has certainly found its place on my bookshelf. Now in its second edition, the BMA prize winning book is an ambitious text covering a vast array of epidemiological concepts in an engaging way....it will remain a recommended, and read, text..."--Paul Pilkington, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of the West of England in Journal of Public Health"

"Books that pursued the concepts and theories of the discipline have not been accessible to general epidemiology students, but this one is. It reaches students and stimulates thinking, and this second edition does this better than the first."--Doody's

"The didactic approach of this edition is a strength. The book has numerous embedded exercises that challenge readers to consider the implications and applications of the concepts that are discussed. Case studies are abundant, and the questions and answers that end the chapters should be particularly useful...Figures have been used creatively to explain key concepts...The range of topics is broad, updated, and appropriate for an introductory text."--American Journal of Epidemiology

"Raj Bhopal's book, Concepts of Epidemiology, has certainly found its place on my bookshelf. Now in its second edition, the BMA prize winning book is an ambitious text covering a vast array of epidemiological concepts in an engaging way....it will remain a recommended, and read, text..."--Paul Pilkington, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of the West of England in Journal of Public Health"

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199543143
• ISBN 13: 9780199543144
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 456