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• Title:Essential epidemiology : an introduction for students and health professionals / Penny Webb, Principal Research Fellow, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Chris Bain, Visiting Scientist, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Andrew Page, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Australia.
  
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• Author/Creator:Webb, Penny, 1963- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bain, Chris, 1947- author.
  Page, Andrew, 1974- author.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  

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  • Call Number: WA105 .W367 2017
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Epidemiology.
  
• Medical Subjects: Epidemiologic Methods.
  Epidemiology.
  
• Edition:Third edition.
  
• Description:xv, 494 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Cambridge medicine (Series)
  
• Summary:"Taking a practical approach and supported by global examples from all areas of health, the new edition of this popular and highly commended textbook has been updated to reflect current epidemiological thinking and teaching. Based on feedback from teachers and students, material has been reordered to better suit courses and reflect the underlying logic and purpose of epidemiology."--Publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107529151 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1107529158 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Epidemiology is ...
  case of food poisoning
  Subdisciplines of epidemiology
  On epidemics
  historical epidemic
  beginnings
  What does epidemiology offer?
  What do epidemiologists do?
  natural experiment
  Conclusions
  2. How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency
  What are we measuring?
  concepts: prevalence and incidence
  Measuring disease occurrence in practice: epidemiological studies
  Measuring disease occurrence in practice: using routine data
  Other measures commonly used in public health
  Global health indicators
  Summary
  Questions
  3. Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology
  Case reports and case series
  Vital statistics and mortality data
  Morbidity data
  Creative use of existing data
  Confidentiality
  Summary
  Questions
  4. Healthy research: study designs for public health
  ideal study
  Intervention studies or trials
  Observational studies
  word about ethics
  Summary
  Questions
  5. Why? Linking exposure and disease
  Looking for associations
  Ratio measures (relative risk)
  Difference measures (attributable risk)
  Relative risk versus attributable risk: an example
  Case-control studies
  Looking for associations when the measures are continuous
  Summary
  Questions
  6. Heads or tails: the role of chance
  Random sampling error
  Statistical significance: could an apparent association have arisen by chance?
  Confidence intervals
  Power: could we have missed a true association?
  Interpreting p-values and confidence intervals
  Statistical versus clinical significance
  Summary
  Questions
  7. All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error
  Sources of error in epidemiological studies
  Selection bias
  Measurement or information error
  Summary
  Questions
  8. Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding
  example of confounding: is alcohol a risk factor for lung cancer?
  Characteristics of a confounder
  Effects of confounding
  Control of confounding
  Confounding: the bottom line
  Questions
  9. Reading between the lines: reading and writing epidemiological papers
  research question and study design
  Internal validity
  So what? are the results important?
  Generalisability (external validity)
  Descriptive studies
  Writing papers
  Summary: one swallow doesn't make a summer
  Questions
  10. Who sank the boat? Association and causation
  What do we mean by a cause?
  Association versus causation
  Evaluating causation
  example: does H. pylori cause stomach cancer?
  Conclusion
  Questions
  11. Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses
  What is a systematic review?
  Identifying the literature
  Appraising the literature
  Summarising the data
  Drawing conclusions
  Assessing the quality of a systematic review
  Making judgements in practice
  end result
  Conclusion
  Questions
  12. Surveillance: collecting health-related data for epidemiological intelligence and public health action / Adrian Sleigh
  scope of surveillance
  Why conduct surveillance?
  Surveillance essentials
  Types of surveillance
  Summary
  Questions
  13. Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters / Adrian Sleigh
  Outbreaks, epidemics, and clusters
  Epidemiology of infectious diseases
  Non-infectious clusters and outbreaks
  Outbreak management and investigation
  Evidence for causation
  Summary
  Questions
  14. Prevention: better than cure?
  Disease prevention in public health
  scope for preventive medicine
  Strategies for prevention
  population attributable fraction as a guide to prevention
  Prevention in practice
  Evaluation of preventive interventions in practice
  final (cautionary) word
  Questions
  15. Early detection: what benefits at what cost?
  Why screen?
  requirements of a screening programme
  Evaluation of a screening programme
  Summary
  Questions
  16. Epidemiology and the public's health
  Translating epidemiological research into practice
  Challenges
  Synthesis and integration
  Limiting error
  Improving measurement
  final word
  Answers to questions.