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An introduction to epidemiology /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Timmreck, Thomas C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Jones and Bartlett, [1994]
Series:Jones and Bartlett series in health sciences.
Subjects:
Epidemiologic Methods.
Table of Contents:
  • Foundations of epidemiology
  • Practical disease concepts in epidemiology
  • Selected historical developments of epidemiology
  • Epidemiological measures of health status: mortality-rates and ratios
  • Epidemiology measures of health status: morbidity-rates and ratios
  • Epidemiology vital statistics and health status indicators
  • Descriptive statistics in epidemiology
  • Research methods, study design and analytic studies
  • Time, place and person
  • Observational methodology, association and causality development.
  • Developing and conducting investigations and studies
  • Behavioral and chronic disease epidemiology
  • Snow on cholera
  • Working through a food-borne illness epidemic investigation: typhoid fever in Schenectady
  • Common-source outbreak of waterborne shigellosis at a public school
  • Retrospective analysis of occupation and alcohol-related mortality
  • Retrospective cohort study of the association of congenital malformations and hazardous waste.