An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals
An 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 publi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Series: | Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health,
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Table of Contents:
- Descriptive 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.
