Applied epidemiology : theory to practice / edited by Ross C. Brownson, Diana B. Petitti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brownson, Ross C., editor.

Petitti, Diana B., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemiology--Research--Methodology.

Epidemiology.

Public Health.

Medical Subjects:

Epidemiology.

Public Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on areas of public health practice in which the systematic application of epidemiologic methods can have a large and positive impact, this text applies traditional methods for determining disease aetiology to applications of public health.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Epidemiology: The Foundation of Public Health""; ""2. Key Methodologic Concepts and Issues""; ""3. Outbreak and Cluster Investigations""; ""4. Public Health Surveillance""; ""5. Epidemiology and Risk Assessment""; ""6. Epidemiologic Issues in the Design of Community Intervention Trials""; ""7. Screening in the Community""; ""8. Epidemiologic Issues in Outcomes Research""; ""9. Economic Evaluation""; ""10. Measuring the Quality of Health Care""; ""11. Communicating Epidemiologic Information""; ""12. Epidemiology and Health Policy""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""

""C""""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-770565-0

0-19-976181-7

1-280-45357-5

9786610453573

1-4237-6358-0

1-60256-176-1

OCLC:

922952655