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Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health, Second Edition

Author(s): Ann Aschengrau, ScD, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
George R. Seage, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Details:
  • ISBN-13: 9780763740252
  • ISBN-10:076374025X
  • Paperback    516 pages      © 2008
Price: International Sales $106.95 US List
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Instructor Resources: Instructor's Manual, PowerPoints, Sample Syllabus, TestBank
Student Resources: Companion Website with WebLinks, Flashcards

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.

Visit the Companion Website for the comprehensive resource package including:

For Instructors:                               For Students:
• Lecture Outlines                              • Flashcards
• Sample Syllabus                             • Weblinks
• PowerPoints
• Test Bank

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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
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Ann Aschengrau, ScD-Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

George R. Seage, ScD-Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

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  • "I am deeply impressed by this book.  It is not only well written but it is also a compendium of the essential elements of the epidemiology, statistics, and public health. I am using it as a reference before I look to other sources and most of the time I get all the answers I need from this single book. I firmly believe this book is a winner.

    —Anbesaw W. Selassie, DrPH, Associate Professor and Director, Division of Epidemiology, Dept. of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina
     

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