Epidemiology Key to Public Health /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Krickeberg, Klaus (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Van Trong, Pham (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Thi My Hanh, Pham (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Θέματα: Statistics .; Epidemiology.; Biostatistics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

This unique textbook presents the field of modern epidemiology as a whole; it does not restrict itself to particular aspects. It stresses the fundamental ideas and their role in any situation of epidemiologic practice. Its structure is largely determined by didactic viewpoints. Epidemiology is the a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The idea of epidemiology
• Uses and applications of epidemiology
• Some case studies and situation analyses
• Infectious diseases: descriptive epidemiology, transmissions, surveillance, control
• Infectious diseases: modelling, immunity
• Diarrhoea and cholera
• Tuberculosis and malaria
• Dengue fever
• Viral hepatitis
• HIV/AIDS
• The origin of information: registers and health information systems
• The origin of information: sampling
• Descriptive data analysis and statistics
• The normal law and applications: Sample size, confidence intervals, tests
• Basic concepts of epidemiology
• Cross-sectional studies
• Cohort studies
• Clinical (therapeutic) trials
• Clinical epidemiology
• Case-control studies
• Confounding
• Epidemiology of cancer
• Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases
• Community studies
• Nutritional and environmental epidemiology
• Social and genetic epidemiology
• Some practical considerations around epidemiologic studies
• What is missing?
• The role of epidemiology in building coherent systems of public health.