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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965174603321

Titolo

Applied epidemiology : theory to practice / / edited by Ross C. Brownson, Diana B. Petitti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770565-0

0-19-976181-7

1-280-45357-5

9786610453573

1-4237-6358-0

1-60256-176-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

614.4/072

Soggetti

Epidemiology - Research - Methodology

Epidemiology

Public Health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Epidemiology: The Foundation of Public Health""; ""2. Key Methodologic Concepts and Issues""; ""3. Outbreak and Cluster Investigations""; ""4. Public Health Surveillance""; ""5. Epidemiology and Risk Assessment""; ""6. Epidemiologic Issues in the Design of Community Intervention Trials""; ""7. Screening in the Community""; ""8. Epidemiologic Issues in Outcomes Research""; ""9. Economic Evaluation""; ""10. Measuring the Quality of Health Care""; ""11. Communicating Epidemiologic Information""; ""12. Epidemiology and Health Policy""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""

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Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on areas of public health practice in which the systematic application of epidemiologic methods can have a large and positive impact, this text applies traditional methods for determining disease aetiology to applications of public health.