An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals
Published on 14. May 2010
Book
Hardback
XII, 163 pages
978-1-4419-1496-5 (ISBN)
Description
Jørn Olsen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.
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Series
Edition
2010
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XII, 163 p.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4419-1496-5 (9781441914965)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-1497-2
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Persons
Jorn Olsen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.
Content
Descriptive Epidemiology.- Measures of Disease Occurrence.- Estimates of Associations.- Age Standardization.- Causes of Diseases.- Descriptive Epidemiology in Public Health.- Descriptive Epidemiology in Genetic Epidemiology.- Descriptive Epidemiology in Clinical Epidemiology.- Analytical Epidemiology.- Design Options.- Follow-Up Studies.- Case-Control Studies.- The Cross-Sectional Study.- The Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT).- Analytical Epidemiology in Public Health.- Analytical Epidemiology in Genetic Epidemiology.- Analytical Epidemiology in Clinical Epidemiology.- Sources of Error.- Confounding and Bias.- Confounding.- Information Bias.- Selection Bias.- Making Inference and Making Decisions.- Sources of Error in Public Health Epidemiology.- Sources of Error in Genetic Epidemiology.- Sources of Error in Clinical Epidemiology.- Statistics in Epidemiology.- P Values.- Calculating Confidence Intervals.- Erratum to: An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals.- Erratum to: An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals.