ISBN details
- ISBN 10: 0199331243
- ISBN 13: 9780199331246
Overview
Epidemiology Matters offers a new approach to understanding and identifying the causes of disease -- and with it, how to prevent disease and improve human health. Utilizing visual explanations and examples, this text provides an accessible, step-by-step introduction to the fundamentals of epidemiologic study, from design to analysis. Across fourteen chapters, Epidemiology Matters teaches the individual competencies that underlie the conduct of an epidemiologic study: identifying populations; measuring exposures and health indicators; taking a sample; estimating associations between exposures and health indicators; assessing evidence for causes working together; assessing internal and external validity of results. With its consequentialist approach -- designing epidemiologic studies that aim to inform our understanding, and therefore improve public health -- Epidemiology Matters is an introductory text for the next generation of students in medicine and public health.Other Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Language: Eng English
- Format: 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations
- Edition: 1
- Dimensions: computer
- Pages: 256
- Date Published: 2014-07-16
- Authors: Katherine M. Keyes