Essential epidemiology : an introduction for students and health professionals /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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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 . . .