BookRaj Bhopal.
Summary: Epidemiology is a population science that underpins health improvement and health care, by exploring and establishing the pattern, frequency, trends, and causes of a disease. Concepts of Epidemiology comprehensively describes the application of core epidemiological concepts and principles to readers interested in population health research, policy making, health service planning, health promotion, and clinical care.
Contents:
What is epidemiology? The nature, scope, variables, principal measures, and designs of a biological, clinical, social, and ecological science
The epidemiological concept of population
Variation in disease by time, place, and person: background and a framework for analysis of genetic and environmental effects
Error, bias, and confounding in epidemiology
Cause and effect: the epidemiological approach
Interrelated concepts in the epidemiology of disease: natural history and incubation period, time trends in populations, spectrum, iceberg, and screening
The concept of risk and fundamental measures of disease frequency: incidence and prevalence
Summarizing, presenting, and interpreting epidemiological data: building on incidence and prevalence
Epidemiological study designs and principles of data analysis: a conceptually integrated suite of methods and techniques
Epidemiology in the past, present, and the future: theory, ethics, context, and critical appraisal.