Essential epidemiology : an introduction for students and health professionals /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webb, Penny, 1963-
Other Authors: Bain, Chris, 1947-, Pirozzo, Sandi, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Epidemiology is . . .
  • How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency
  • Who, what, where and when? Finding and using public health data
  • Watching not waiting : surveillance and epidemiological intelligence
  • Why? linking exposure and disease
  • Solid foundations : research designs for public health
  • All that glitters is not gold : the problem of error
  • Muddied waters : the challenge of confounding
  • Bringing it together : reading and writing papers in practice
  • Who sank the boat? Association and causation
  • Assembling the building blocks : reviews and their uses
  • Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters
  • Prevention : better than cure?
  • Early detection : what benefits at what cost?
  • A final word . . .