Cover Image

Veterinary epidemiology /

Show other versions (8)
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thrusfield, M. V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Blackwell, 1997.
Edition:Second edition, [updated].
Subjects:
Animal Diseases > epidemiology.
Epidemiologic Methods > veterinary.
Epidemiology.
Veterinary Medicine.
Table of Contents:
  • The development of veterinary medicine
  • The scope of epidemiology
  • Some general epidemiological concepts and principles
  • Describing disease occurrence
  • Determinants of disease
  • The transmission and maintenance of infection
  • The ecology of disease
  • Patterns of disease
  • The nature of data
  • Sources of data
  • Data management
  • Presenting numerical data
  • Surveys
  • Demonstrating association
  • Observational studies
  • Clinical trials
  • Diagnostic testing
  • Comparative epidemiology
  • Modelling
  • The economics of disease
  • Health schemes
  • The control and eradication of disease.