Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health Fourth Edition Ann Aschengrau

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1284128350
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1284128352

Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health, Fourth Edition combines concept and apply in presenting conventional and new epidemiologic ideas. Broad in scope, the textual content opens with 5 chapters masking the essential epidemiologic ideas and knowledge sources. A significant emphasis is positioned on examine design, with separate chapters devoted to every of the three fundamental analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and case-control research. Full chapters on bias, confounding, and random error, together with the function of statistics in epidemiology, be sure that college students are well-equipped with the mandatory info to interpret the outcomes of epidemiologic research. Up-to-date examples from the epidemiologic literature on illnesses of public well being significance are offered all through the e book. Key Options: • New examples and the most recent public well being statistics all through • Protection of the Ebola outbreak together with an in-depth investigation of what occurred • New examples that illustrate epidemiological ideas together with a higher emphasis on social components that affect well being, equivalent to racism • Simple descriptions of the most recent epidemiologic strategies together with mediation evaluation, agent-based modelling, and the use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to evaluate confounding. • An expanded glossary and key phrases highlighted all through the textual content