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Applied epidemiology : theory to practice
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemiology--Methodology--Research.
- Epidemiology.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Health Policy.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Public Health.
- Health Services Administration.
- Public Policy.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Medicine.
- Social Control Policies.
- Health Occupations.
- Policy.
- Social Control, Formal.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Social Sciences.
- Occupations.
- Sociology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Quality of Health Care.
- Health Policy.
- Epidemiology.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Public Health.
- Health Services Administration.
- Public Policy.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Medicine.
- Social Control Policies.
- Health Occupations.
- Policy.
- Social Control, Formal.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Social Sciences.
- Occupations.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 358 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Other Title:
- Applied epidemiology
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- 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:
- Epidemiology: a foundation of public health
- Public health surveillance
- Outbreak and cluster investigations
- Systematic reviews in public health
- Epidemiology and risk assessment
- Epidemiologic issues in community intervention
- Outcomes research
- Measuring the quality of health care
- Epidemiology and health policy
- Epidemiology and the law
- Communicating epidemiologic information.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199864997 (ebook) :
- 0199864993 (ebook) :
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