Medicine Books

Book Features

• Author: Ann Aschengrau
• Language: English
• ISBN10: 076374025X

Book Overview

>>>Efficiently tested in the authors’ courses at Boston University and Harvard University, this text combines theory and practice in presenting conventional and new epidemiologic ideas. Broad in scope, the text opens with five chapters covering the fundamental epidemiologic ideas and information sources. A major emphasis is placed on study style, with separate chapters devoted to every of the three primary analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and situation-control studies. Full chapters on bias, confounding, and random error, such as the role of statistics in epidemiology, ensure that students are properly-equipped with the required info to interpret the final results of epidemiologic studies. An whole chapter is also devoted to the idea of effect measure modification, an usually-neglected subject in introductory textbooks. Up-to-date examples from the epidemiologic literature on diseases of public well being significance are supplied all through the book. The second edition has been thoroughly revised with up-to-date examples and data from epidemiologic literature and characteristics more than 100 new study concerns….