an introduction for students and health professionals Webb, Penny 1963- creator Bain, Chris 1947- author. Page, Andrew 1974- author. text bibliography eng 2017 3ed monographic eng

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xv, 494 pages : illustrations 25cm 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 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. Penny Webb, Chris Bain, Andrew Page. Includes bibliographical references and index. Epidemiologic Methods Epidemiology WA 105 W365e 2017 9781107529151 2016007893 DNLM 180907 20220519075240.0 1677082 eng