Successfully tested in the authors' courses at Boston University and Harvard University, this text combines theory and practice in presenting traditional and new epidemiologic concepts. Broad in scope, the text opens with five chapters covering the basic epidemiologic concepts and data sources. A major emphasis is placed on study design, with separate chapters devoted to each of the three main analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and case-control studies.
Full chapters on bias, confounding, and random error, including the role of statistics in epidemiology, ensure that students are well-equipped with the necessary information to interpret the results of epidemiologic studies. An entire chapter is also devoted to the concept of effect measure modification, an often-neglected topic in introductory textbooks. Up-to-date examples from the epidemiologic literature on diseases of public health importance are provided throughout the book.
The Second Edition has been thoroughly revised with up-to-date examples and data from epidemiologic literature and features over 100 new study questions.
Contents
- Chapter 1 The Approach and Evolution of Epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Measures of Disease Frequency
- Chapter 3 Comparing Disease Frequencies
- Chapter 4 Sources of Public Health Data
- Chapter 5 Descriptive Epidemiology
- Chapter 6 Overview of Epidemiologic Study Designs
- Chapter 7 Experimental Studies
- Chapter 8 Cohort Studies
- Chapter 9 Case-Control Studies
- Chapter 10 Bias
- Chapter 11 Confounding
- Chapter 12 Random Error
- Chapter 13 Effect Measure Modification
- Chapter 14 Critical Review of Epidemiologic Studies
- Chapter 15 The Epidemiologic Approach to Causation
- Chapter 16 The Epidemiologic Approach to Causation
- Chapter 17 Ethics in Research Involving Human Participants
About the Authors
- Ann Aschengrau, ScD-Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
- George R. Seage, ScD-Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Product Details
- Paperback: 516 pages
- Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 2 edition (June 8, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 076374025X
- ISBN-13: 978-0763740252
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
List Price: $101.95