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Epidemiology kept simple : an introduction to traditional and modern epidemiology /
B. Burt Gerstman introduces the epidemiological principles and methods that are increasingly important in the practice of medicine and public health. With minimum use of technical language it fully explains terminology, concepts, and techniques associated with traditional and modern epidemiology. To...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley-Blackwell : a John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication,
2013.
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Epidemiology past and present
- Causal concepts
- Epidemiologic measures
- Descriptive epidemiology
- Introduction to epidemiologic study design
- Experimental studies
- Observational cohort studies
- Case control studies
- Error in epidemiologic research
- Screening for disease
- The infectious disease process
- Outbreak investigation
- Confidence intervals and p values
- Mantel/Haenszel methods
- Statistical interaction : effect measure modification
- Case definitions and disease classification
- Survival analysis
- Current life tables
- Random distribution of cases in time and space.