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050 00 RA651 |b.W385 2017
100 1 Webb, Penny,|d1963
245 10 Essential epidemiology :|bAn introduction for students and
health professionals /|cPenny Webb,Chris Bain, Andrew
Page.
250 .3rd ed
260 Cambridge :|bCambridge University Press,|c.2017
300 xv,494 p:|bill (some color);|c25 cm.
490 Cambridge Medicine
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Epidemiology is ... -- How long is a piece of string? :
measuring disease frequency -- Who, what, where and when?:
descriptive epidemiology -- Healthy research : study
designs for public health -- Why? : linking exposure and
disease -- Heads or tails : the role of chance -- All that
glitters is not gold : the problem of error -- Muddied
waters : the challenge of confounding -- Reading
betweenthe lines : reading and writing epidemiological
papers -- Who sank the boat? : association and causation -
-Assembling the building blocks : reviews and their uses -
-Surveillance : collecting health-related data for
epidemiological intelligence and public health action /
Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh -- Outbreaks, epidemics, and
clusters / Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh -- Prevention :
better than cure? -- Early detection : what benefits at
what cost? -- Epidemiology and the publicʹs health.
520 0 "Taking a practical approach and supported by global
examples from all areas of health, the new edition of this
popular and highly commended textbook has been updated to
reflect current epidemiological thinking and
teaching.Based on feedback from teachers and students,
material has been reordered to better suit courses and
reflect the underlying logic and purpose of epidemiology."
-- Publisher
650 0 Epidemiology
650 Epidemiologic Methods
700 1 Bain, Chris,|d1947
700 1 Page, Andrew,|d1974
830 0 Cambridge medicine