Epidemiology / Leon Gordis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordis, Leon, 1934-2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemiology.

Epidemiologic Methods.

Medical Subjects:

Epidemiology.

Epidemiologic Methods.

Physical Description:

xv, 392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier Saunders, [2014]

Summary:

With 30 years of experience teaching introductory epidemiology to thousands of students, Dr. Leon Gordis is uniquely qualified to familiarize you with this complex science in a clear, memorable way. An award-winning educator with decades of teaching experience, his honors include the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, which he received six times from the students in the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health; the Professors' Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Preclinical Sciences from the JHU School of Medicine; and the Lilienfeld Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Teaching of Epidemiology from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association. He has served as President of the American Epidemiological Society and of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. In this best-selling textbook, Dr. Gordis explains the epidemiologic approach to disease and intervention, explores the use of epidemiologic principles to identify the causes of disease, and discusses how epidemiology should be used to improve evaluation and public policy, it's your best choice for an accessible yet rich Understanding of epidemiology! Check your understanding of essential information with multiple-choice epidemiology self-assessment questions (120 inside the book plus 200 more online). Visualize concepts vividly through abundant full-Color figures, graphs, and charts. Access the complete contents online at Student Consult, including multiple-choice epidemiology self-assessment questions not found in the book, with answers to all questions as well as full rationales explaining why every answer is correct or incorrect. Book jacket.

Contents:

The dynamics of disease transmission

The occurrence of disease : I. Disease surveillance and measures of morbidity

The occurrence of disease: II. Mortality and other measures of disease impact

Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests

The natural history of disease : ways of expressing prognosis

Assessing preventive and therapeutic measures : randomized trials

Randomized trials : some further issues

Cohort studies

Case-control and other study designs

Estimating risk : is there an association?

More on risk : estimating the potential for prevention

A pause for review : comparing cohort and case-control studies

From association to causation : deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies

More on causal inferences : bias, confounding, and interaction

Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation

Using epidemiology to evaluate health services

The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs

Epidemiology and public policy

Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781455737338

145573733X

OCLC:

851145101