Epidemiology for the Uninitiated / Edition 5

by David Coggon, David Barker, Geoffrey Rose

Overview

This perennial bestseller is an ideal introductions to epidemiology in health care. The fifith editon retains the book's simplicity and brevity, at the same time providing the reader with the core elements of epidemiology needed in health care practice and research. The text has been revised throughout, with new examples introduced to bring the book right up to date.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780727916044
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/16/2003
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Coggon is the author of Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, 5th Edition, published by Wiley.

David James Purslove Barker CBE was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that foetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life.

Table of Contents

1 What is Epidemiology?.

2 Quantifiying Disease in Populations.

3 Comparing Disease Rates.

4 Measurement Error and Bias.

5 Planning and Conducting a Survey.

6 Ecological Studies.

7 Longitudinal Studies.

8 Case-control and Cross Sectional Studies.

9 Experimental Studies.

10 Screening.

11 Outbreaks of Disease.

12 Reading Epidemiolgical Reports.

Further Reading.

Index