An introduction to epidemiology for health professionals

INDICE: Part I: Descriptive Epidemiology.- Measures of Disease Occurence.- Measures of Effect.- Standardization.- Causes of Diseases.- Descriptive Epidemiology in Public Healht.- Descriptive Epidemiology in Genetic Epidemiology.- Descriptive Epidemiology in Clinical Epidemiology.- Part II: Analytical Epidemiology.- Design Options.- Follow-Up Studies.- Case-Control Studies.- Design Options in Public Health.- Design Options in Genetic Epidemiology.- Design Options in Clinical Epidemiology.- Making Inference and Making Decisions.- Part III:Sources of Error.- Confounding and Bias.- Confounding.- Information Bias.- Selection Bias.- Bias and Confounding in Public Health.- Bias and Confounding inGenetic Epidemiology.- Bias and Confounding in Clinical Epidemiology.- Part IV: Statistics in Epidemiology.- P Values.- Calculating Confidence Limits.

• ISBN: 978-1-4614-2600-4
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés