Epidemiology Kept Simple: An Introduction to Classic and Modern Epidemiology, Second Edition - Softcover

Gerstman, B. Burt

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9780471400288: Epidemiology Kept Simple: An Introduction to Classic and Modern Epidemiology, Second Edition

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ISBN 10: 0471400289 ISBN 13: 9780471400288

Publisher: Wiley-Liss, 2003

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Arranged to facilitate use and highlight key concepts, this clear and concise text also includes many practical exercises, case studies, and real-world applications. Utilizing the modern biostatistical approach to studying disease, Epidemiology Kept Simple, Second Edition will provide readers with the tools to interpret epidemiological data, understand disease concepts, and prepare for board exams. The author fully explains all new terminology and minimizes the use of technical language, while emphasizing real-life practice in modern public health and biomedical research settings.

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Epidemiology Kept Simple: An Introduction to Classic and Modern Epidemiology will provide a clear, concise introductory-level text that will be accessible to beginning students, and that will also be useful as a primer to qualified professionals in health care field that wish to understand the newest concepts in the field.

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As epidemiology expands into new areas of medicine and scientific research, professionals without specific epidemiologic training and undergraduate students in a variety of health-related fields are increasingly called upon to study and assess epid emiological information.

Epidemiology Kept Simple: An Introduction to Classic and Modern Epidemiology, Second Edition revises and updates the first accessible treatment of the subject for non-epidemiologists. Using traditional and modern epidemiologic approaches, it gives the reader simple yet effective tools to interpret epidemiologic data, keep up with current literature, and prepare for qualifying exams with epidemiologic content. Clear and concise throughout, this book features a series of authoritative chapters arranged in a format that encourages comprehension of key concepts. Topics covered include:

The historical development of epidemiologic ideas
Causal concepts
Identification and classification of disease
Measures of disease frequency (incidence and prevalence)
Stratification and adjustment
Measures of association and potential impact
Types of studies and epidemiologic study designs
Sources of error in epidemiologic study designs
Confidence intervals and p values
Mantel-Haenszel methods of confounder adjustment
Statistical interaction in epidemiologic studies
Causal inference
Survival analysis and current life tables
Clusters and outbreaks

The Second Edition contains chapter summaries, illustrations, and extensive references for would-be epidemiologists or for those interested in specialized areas of epidemiology. It is an ideal introductory text for public health training programs as well as for students and professionals in medicine, health education, and the biologic sciences, and for all who would like to sharpen their epidemiologic skills.

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