Essential Epidemiology An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals

Name: Essential Epidemiology An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals
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ISBN: 9780521177313

ISBN-10: 0521177316

ISBN-13: 9780521177313

Edition: 2nd 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Penny Webb, Christopher Bain

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Book details

List price: $84.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 466
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Penny Webb is a Senior Research Fellow and Head, Gynaecological Cancers Group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia.

Chris Bain is Reader in Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.




Epidemiology is ...



How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency



Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology



Healthy research: study designs for public health



Why? Linking exposure and disease



Heads or tails?: The role of chance



All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error



Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding



Reading between the lines: reading and writing epidemiological papers



Who sank the boat? Association and causation



Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses



Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters



Watching not waiting: surveillance and epidemiological intelligence



Prevention: better than cure?



Early detection: what benefits at what cost?



A final word ...;; Answers to questions



Direct standardisation



Standard populations



Calculating cumulative incidence and lifetime risk from routine data



Indirect standardisation



Calculating life expectancy from a life table



The Mantel-Haenszel method for calculating pooled odds ratios



Formulae for calculating confidence intervals for common epidemiological measures


Index