Essential Epidemiology is a clear, engaging and methodological introduction to the subject of epidemiology, fully integrated with the concepts of public health. Now in its fifth edition, the text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research and data.
Essential Epidemiology is a clear, engaging and methodological introduction to the subject of epidemiology, fully integrated with the concepts of public health. Now in its fifth edition, the text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research and data.
Penelope Webb, MA (Cambridge), DPhil (Oxford), is a Distinguished Scientist and Senior Group Leader at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, and an Honorary Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. She taught basic and intermediate epidemiology to public health students across Australia for five years and has worked as a visiting scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France, and at Harvard University in the United States. She has published more than 400 original research papers in the field of epidemiology.
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1. Epidemiology is... 2. How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency 3. Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology 4. Healthy research: study designs for public health 5. Why? Linking exposure and disease 6. Heads or tails: the role of chance 7. All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error 8. Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding 9. Reading between the lines: reading and writing epidemiological papers 10. Who sank the boat? Association and causation 11. Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses 12. Public health surveillance: collecting data for public health action Martyn Kirk, Penelope Webb and Chris Bain 13. Clusters, outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics Martyn Kirk and Penelope Webb 14. Prevention: better than cure? 15. Early detection: what benefits at what cost? 16. Epidemiology and the public's health.
1. Epidemiology is... 2. How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency 3. Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology 4. Healthy research: study designs for public health 5. Why? Linking exposure and disease 6. Heads or tails: the role of chance 7. All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error 8. Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding 9. Reading between the lines: reading and writing epidemiological papers 10. Who sank the boat? Association and causation 11. Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses 12. Public health surveillance: collecting data for public health action Martyn Kirk, Penelope Webb and Chris Bain 13. Clusters, outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics Martyn Kirk and Penelope Webb 14. Prevention: better than cure? 15. Early detection: what benefits at what cost? 16. Epidemiology and the public's health.
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