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Essential epidemiology : an introduction for students and health professionals / Penny Webb, Principal Research Fellow, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Chris Bain, Visiting Scientist, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Andrew Page, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Author
Webb, Penny, 1963-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Third edition.
Published/Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description
xv, 494 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RA651 .W385 2017
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Epidemiology
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Author
Bain, Chris, 1947-
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Page, Andrew, 1974-
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Series
Cambridge medicine (Series)
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Summary note
"Taking a practical approach and supported by global examples from all areas of health, the new edition of this popular and highly commended textbook has been updated to reflect current epidemiological thinking and teaching. Based on feedback from teachers and students, material has been reordered to better suit courses and reflect the underlying logic and purpose of epidemiology."--Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
Surveillance : collecting health-related data for epidemiological intelligence and public health action / Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh
Outbreaks, epidemics, and clusters / Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh
Prevention : better than cure?
Early detection : what benefits at what cost?
Epidemiology and the publicʹs health.
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ISBN
9781107529151 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1107529158 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016007893
OCLC
941714731
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