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Gordis epidemiology / David D. Celentano, Moyses Szklo.
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- ISBN: 9780323552295
- ISBN: 0323552293
- Physical Description: xi, 420 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: 6th edition.
- Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Previous edition published as: Epidemiology by Leon Gordis. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2014. Librarians refer to in-house list. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The dynamics of disease transmission -- The occurrence of disease: I. Disease surveillance and measures of morbidity -- The occurrence of disease:II. Morality and other measures of disease impact -- Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests -- The natural history of disease: ways of expressing prognosis -- Observational studies -- Cohort studies -- Comparing cohort and case-control studies -- Assessing preventive and therapeutic measures: randomized trials -- Randomized trials: some further issues -- Estimating risk: is there an association? -- More on risk: estimating the potential for prevention -- From association to causation: deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies -- More on causal inference: bias, confounding, and interaction -- Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation -- Using epidemiology to evaluate health services -- Epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs -- Epidemiology and public policy -- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology. |
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Subject: | Epidemiology Epidemiologic Methods |
Topic Heading: | Epidemiology and Statistical Methods |