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This brand new title in the market-leading 'At a Glance' series provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to the key concepts of population-level disease prevention. Accessible, double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate the determinants of health which impact on healt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Somerville, Margaret, Dr
Otros Autores: Kumaran, K. (Kalyanaraman), Anderson, Rob, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Colección:At a glance series (Oxford, England)
Temas:
Epidemiology > Methodology.
Public health.
Medical care > Needs assessment.
Needs assessment.
Epidemiologic Methods
Public Health
Needs Assessment
Health Services Needs and Demand
Épidémiologie > Méthodologie.
Santé publique.
Soins médicaux > Analyse des besoins.
Analyse des besoins.
public health.
needs assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
Needs assessment
Epidemiology > Methodology
Medical care > Needs assessment
Public health
Health & Biological Sciences.
Public Health.
Public Health - General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the authors; 1 Introduction to public health; Domains of public health; Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice; 2 Incidence and prevalence; Definitions; Rates; Descriptive epidemiology; 3 Risks and odds; Risk, relative risk and absolute risk difference; Odds and odds ratio; 4 Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation; Hierarchy of evidence; Establishing a causal relationship; 5 Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies; Bias; Confounding; Chance; 6 Standardisation; Why do we need to standardise data?

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