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    An introduction to public health and epidemiology / Susan Carr, Nigel Unwin and Tanja Pless-Mulloli.

    • Title:An introduction to public health and epidemiology / Susan Carr, Nigel Unwin and Tanja Pless-Mulloli.
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    • Author/Creator:Carr, Susan, 1959-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Unwin, Nigel, 1958-
      Pless-Mulloli, Tanja.
      Unwin, Nigel, 1958- Public health and epidemiology.
    • Published/Created:Maidenhead, Berkshire, England ; New York : Open University Press/McGraw-Hill, 2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Public health.
      Epidemiology.
    • Edition:2nd ed.
    • Description:xii, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Previous ed.: published as Public health and epidemiology by Nigel Unwin, Susan Carr & Joyce Leeson. 1997.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages [160]-168) and index.
    • ISBN:9780335216246 (paper)
      0335216242 (paper)
      9780335216253 (cloth)
      0335216250 (cloth)
    • Contents:1. Lessons from the history of public health and epidemiology for the twenty-first century
      2. Sources and critical use of health information
      3. Measuring the frequency of health problems
      4. Measures of risk
      5. Epidemiological study designs
      6. Weighing up the evidence from epidemiological studies
      7. determinants of health and disease
      8. Health promotion
      9. Health needs analysis
      10. Principles of screening
      11. Changing public health: what impacts on public health practice?
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