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Essential epidemiology : an introduction for students and health professionals / Penelope Webb, Chris Bain, Andrew Page.

By: Webb, Penny, 1963- [author.].
Contributor(s): Bain, Chris, 1947- [author.] | Page, Andrew, 1974- [author.] | Vital Source Technologies.
Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, ©2020Edition: Fourth edition.Description: 416 pages cm 28.Content type: text ISBN: 9781108766807 (paperback).Subject(s): EpidemiologyGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
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 between the 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, Penelope Webb and Chris Bain -- Outbreaks, epidemics, and clusters / Martyn Kirk, Adrian Sleigh and Penelope Webb -- Prevention : better than cure? -- Early detection : what benefits at what cost? -- Epidemiology and the public's health.
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Previous edition published in 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 between the 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, Penelope Webb and Chris Bain -- Outbreaks, epidemics, and clusters / Martyn Kirk, Adrian Sleigh and Penelope Webb -- Prevention : better than cure? -- Early detection : what benefits at what cost? -- Epidemiology and the public's health.

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