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020 _a9781108766807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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_bWEB
100 1 _aWebb, Penny,
_d1963-
_eauthor.
_924768
245 1 0 _aEssential epidemiology :
_ban introduction for students and health professionals /
_cPenny Webb, Principal Research Fellow, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Chris Bain, Visiting Scientist, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Andrew Page, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Australia.
250 _aThird edition
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge Press,
_c2021.
300 _axv, 416 pages :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c24cm.
490 1 _aCambridge Medicine
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 0 _aEpidemiology is ... -- How long is a piece of string? : measuring disease frequency -- Who, what, where and when? : descriptive epidemiology -- Healthy research : study designs for public health -- Why? : linking exposure and disease -- Heads or tails : the role of chance -- All that glitters is not gold : the problem of error -- Muddied waters : the challenge of confounding -- Reading between the lines : reading and writing epidemiological papers -- Who sank the boat? : association and causation -- Assembling the building blocks : reviews and their uses -- Surveillance : collecting health-related data for epidemiological intelligence and public health action / Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh -- Outbreaks, epidemics, and clusters / Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh -- Prevention : better than cure? -- Early detection : what benefits at what cost? -- Epidemiology and the publicʹs health
520 _a"Taking a practical approach and supported by global examples from all areas of health, the new edition of this popular and highly commended textbook has been updated to reflect current epidemiological thinking and teaching. Based on feedback from teachers and students, material has been reordered to better suit courses and reflect the underlying logic and purpose of epidemiology." -- Publisher
650 0 _aEpidemiology.
_95982
650 1 2 _aEpidemiologic Methods.
_93158
650 2 2 _aEpidemiology.
_95982
700 1 _aBain, Chris,
_d1947-
_eauthor.
_924769
700 1 _aPage, Andrew,
_d1974-
_eauthor.
_924770
830 0 _aCambridge medicine (Series)
_924771
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_cBK
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