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100 1 _aOlsen, Jørn.
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245 1 3 _aAn Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Jørn Olsen, Kaare Christensen, Jeff Murray, Anders Ekbom.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2010.
300 _aXII, 163p.
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336 _atext
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490 1 _aSpringer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health,
_x1869-7933 ;
_v1
505 0 _aDescriptive Epidemiology -- Measures of Disease Occurrence -- Estimates of Associations -- Age Standardization -- Causes of Diseases -- Descriptive Epidemiology in Public Health -- Descriptive Epidemiology in Genetic Epidemiology -- Descriptive Epidemiology in Clinical Epidemiology -- Analytical Epidemiology -- Design Options -- Follow-Up Studies -- Case–Control Studies -- The Cross-Sectional Study -- The Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) -- Analytical Epidemiology in Public Health -- Analytical Epidemiology in Genetic Epidemiology -- Analytical Epidemiology in Clinical Epidemiology -- Sources of Error -- Confounding and Bias -- Confounding -- Information Bias -- Selection Bias -- Making Inference and Making Decisions -- Sources of Error in Public Health Epidemiology -- Sources of Error in Genetic Epidemiology -- Sources of Error in Clinical Epidemiology -- Statistics in Epidemiology -- P Values -- Calculating Confidence Intervals -- Erratum to: An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals -- Erratum to: An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals.
520 _aAn Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals Jorn Olsen, Kaare Christensen, Jeff Murray, and Anders Ekbom Who gets sick? What factors—genetic, environmental, social—contribute to their illness? Easy enough to ask, but the answers are becoming increasingly complicated. Today, as the public worries about emerging diseases and the word epidemic is part of the general discussion, epidemiology should be a basic component of medical training, yet often it is undertaught or even neglected. Concise and readable while also rigorous and thorough, An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals goes beyond standard textbook content to ground the reader in scientific methods most relevant to the current health landscape and the evolution of evidence-based medicine—valuable keys to better understanding of disease process, effective prevention, and targeted treatment. This volume: Presents material accessibly for readers who may have not studied epidemiology. Focuses equally in descriptive and analytic branches of epidemiology. Demonstrates applications of descriptive and analytic methods in public health, genetic epidemiology, and clinical epidemiology. Includes a "Sources of Error" section addressing problems in inference and decision-making, selection bias, and other common pitfalls. In addition to its usefulness for graduate students in public health and medical students in clinical epidemiology, An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals is a timely reference for practitioners needing a refresher in this important discipline.
650 0 _aMedicine.
650 0 _aEpidemiology.
650 1 4 _aMedicine & Public Health.
650 2 4 _aEpidemiology.
700 1 _aChristensen, Kaare.
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700 1 _aMurray, Jeff.
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700 1 _aEkbom, Anders.
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