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Epidemiology : an introduction.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rothman, Kenneth J., author.
- Huybrechts, Krista F., author.
- Murray, Eleanor J., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (354 pages)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Across the last 50 years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological sciences, incorporating everything from statistics to the philosophy of science in its aim to study and track the distribution and determinants of health events. The third edition of this essential introductory textbook gives an overview of the core concepts that form the underpinnings of epidemiology and epidemiologic research. Rather than focusing on statistics or formulas, the textbook presents the underlying epidemiologic principles and concepts in a coherent and straightforward exposition. This core content is supplemented with historical notes, a discussion of scientific inference, details about infectious disease epidemiology, and some advanced topics that serve as an on-ramp into further study for those who elect to pursue it.
- Contents:
- Introduction to Epidemiologic Thinking
- Pioneers in Epidemiology and Public Health
- What Is Causation?
- Measures of Disease Occurrence, Association, and Causal Effects
- Types of Epidemiologic Studies
- Dealing with Biases
- Random Error and the Role of Statistics
- Analyzing Simple Epidemiologic Data
- Stratified Analysis
- Using Regression Models in Epidemiologic Analysis
- Measuring Interactions
- Epidemiology in Clinical Settings
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Field Epidemiology
- An Introduction to Some Advanced Topics.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: published as by Kenneth J. Rothman. 2012.
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 5, 2024).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780197751572
- 0197751571
- 9780197751558
- 0197751555
- 9780197751565
- 0197751563
- OCLC:
- 1425947945
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