Penny Webb

Essential Epidemiology (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking a practical approach and supported by global examples from all areas of health, the new edition of this popular and highly commended textbook has been updated to reflect current epidemiological thinking and teaching. Based on feedback from teachers and students, material has been reordered to better suit courses and reflect the underlying logic and purpose of epidemiology. * Provides students with a rounded picture of the field by emphasizing the commonalities across different areas of epidemiology, including clinical epidemiology, and highlighting the key role of epidemiology in public health * Avoids complex mathematics by restricting this to optional material, thereby keeping the book accessible to students from non-quantitative backgrounds * Integrated and supplementary questions help students to reinforce concepts * A wealth of online material is available at www.cambridge.org/essential_epidemiology, including additional questions, advanced material for key concepts, recommendations for further reading, links to useful websites and slides for teaching, supporting both students and teachers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316683385
• Artikelnr.: 49271918

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.