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Applied epidemiology : theory to practice

Oxford Scholarship Online: Public Health and Epidemiology Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Petitti, Diana B., Contributor.
Brownson, Ross C., Contributor.
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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