Title:
Epidemiology, biostatistics, and preventive medicine
Author:
Jekel, James F.
ISBN:
9781416034964
Edition:
3rd ed.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier, c2007.
Physical Description:
1 vol. (XII-421 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm.
General Note:
Rev. ed. of: Epidemiology, biostatistics, and preventive medicine / James F. Jekel, David L. Katz, Joann G. Elmore. 2001.
Contents:
Basic epidemiologic concepts and principles -- Epidemiologic data sources and measurements -- Epidemiologic surveillance and outbreak investigation -- The study of causation in epidemiologic investigation and research -- Common research designs used in epidemiology -- Assessment of risk and benefit in epidemiologic studies -- Understanding the quality of data in clinical medicine -- Improving decisions in clinical medicine -- Describing variation in data -- Statistical inference and hypothesis testing -- Bivariate analysis -- Sample size, randomization, and probability theory -- Multivariable analysis -- Introduction to preventive medicine -- Methods of primary prevention: health promotion -- Methods of primary prevention: specific protection -- Methods of secondary prevention -- Methods of tertiary prevention -- Selected topics in prevention -- The public health system: structure and function -- Health care organization, policy, and financing
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