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• Title:Essentials of epidemiology in public health / Ann Aschengrau, George R. Seage III.
  
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• Author/Creator:Aschengrau, Ann.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Seage, George R., III.
  
• Published/Created:Sudbury, Mass. ; Toronto : Jones and Bartlett, ©2008.
  

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  • Call Number: WA950 .A823 2008
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Epidemiology.
  Public health.
  Social medicine.
  
• Medical Subjects: Epidemiologic Methods.
  Public Health.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:ix, 516 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:Combines theory and practice in presenting traditional and new epidemiologic concepts. Broad in scope, the text opens with five chapters covering the basic epidemiologic concepts and data sources. A major emphasis is placed on study design, with separate chapters devoted to each of the three main analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and case-control studies. Full chapters on bias, confounding, and random error, including the role of statistics in epidemiology, ensure that students are well-equipped with the necessary information to interpret the results of epidemiologic studies. An entire chapter is also devoted to the concept of effect measure modification, an often-neglected topic in introductory textbooks. Up-to-date examples from the epidemiologic literature on diseases of public health importance are provided throughout the book. The second edition has been thoroughly revised with up-to-date examples and data from epidemiologic literature and features over 100 new study questions.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780763740252
  076374025X
  
• Contents:1. approach and evolution of epidemiology
  2. Measures of disease frequency
  3. Comparing disease frequencies
  4. Sources of public health data
  5. Descriptive epidemiology
  6. Overview of epidemiologic study designs
  7. Experimental studies
  8. Cohort studies
  9. Case-control studies
  10. Bias
  11. Confounding
  12. Random error
  13. Effect measure modification
  14. Critical review of epidemiologic studies
  15. epidemiologic approach to causation
  16. Screening in public health practice
  17. Ethics in research involving human participants.