Modern infectious disease epidemiology / by Johan Giesecke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giesecke, Johan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases.

Epidemiology.

Communicable Diseases.

Epidemiologic Methods.

Medical Subjects:

Communicable Diseases.

Epidemiologic Methods.

Physical Description:

xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Arnold ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press, [2002]

Summary:

The second edition of Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology, in line with changing health concerns, is a thorough revision of the first. Written from an infectious disease perspective throughout, the book aims to teach epidemiology to those with a background in this field. It seeks to fill the gap between the standard textbooks of epidemiology, which rarely approach the subject from an infectious disease perspective, and standard books on infection surveillance and control, which tend to slant more towards microbiology and practical measures than towards analytical epidemiology.

Divided into two parts, the first covers the tools of epidemiology much like other textbooks, but always from an infectious disease perspective. The second covers the role of contact pattern from an assessment angle, and uses the tools learnt to illustrate the study of fundamental infectious disease concepts, such as infectivity, incubation periods, seroepidemiology and immunity. This detailed theoretical epidemiology textbook is clearly set out, with an expanded chapter on practical statistical methods, and a new chapter on descriptive epidemiology. Key features include new clinical examples and infectious disease problems of recent interest, such as tuberculosis and vCJD. All students of epidemiology, infectious disease medicine and microbiology will find this an invaluable guide.

Contents:

Chapter 1 What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? 3

Chapter 3 Descriptive epidemiology 21

Chapter 4 Risk, relative risk and attack rate 27

Chapter 5 The case-control study: odds, odds, ratios

the concept of confounding 35

Chapter 6 The cohort study: rates

the concept of bias 51

Chapter 7 Some statistical procedures that are often used in epidemiology 64

Chapter 8 Clinical epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, misclassification 80

Chapter 9 Multivariate analysis and interaction 91

Chapter 10 Survival analysis 108

Chapter 11 Mathematical models for epidemics 119

Chapter 12 Detection and analysis of outbreaks 133

Chapter 13 Routine surveillance of infectious diseases 148

Chapter 14 Measuring infectivity 160

Chapter 15 Studying the natural history of infectious diseases 176

Chapter 16 Seroepidemiology 188

Chapter 17 The study of contact patterns 200

Chapter 18 Methods for deciding whether or not an illness is infectious 215

Chapter 19 The epidemiology of vaccination 226

Chapter 20 The epidemiology of AIDS and variant CJD 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0340764236

OCLC:

49011316