Essentials of Infectious Disease EpidemiologyJones & Bartlett Learning, 2008 - 227 páginas As WHO Director-General Nakajima says of infectious disease, "No country is safe from them." As public health education grows, so, too will the need for methodologic skills in infectious disease epidemiology. Without these crucial skills, there will be insufficient resources to improve the health of the public, both domestically and globally. Essentials of Infectious Disease Epidemiology is one of the few texts devoted specifically to the methods required to study infectious disease making the perfect introduction to the field for undergraduate and introductory masters-level public health students. It will provide students with the requisite skills to conduct, evaluate, and understand the field of infectious disease epidemiology. Looking for more real-life evidence? Check out Cases 1, 2, 19, & 21 in Essential Case Studies in Public Health, Putting Public Health into Practice. |
Índice
Why Study Methods? | 11 |
Descriptive Infectious Disease Epidemiology | 21 |
Outbreak Investigations | 43 |
Rates and Measures | 63 |
How to Conduct a Study | 77 |
Experimental Designs as a Foundation for Observational Studies | 85 |
Cohort Studies | 103 |
CaseControl and CrossSectional Studies | 115 |
Threats to Internal and External Validity in the Study | 143 |
Special Applications | 163 |
56 | 179 |
76 | 185 |
Program Evaluation in the Infectious Disease Setting | 189 |
77 | 205 |
A Brief Word on Sensitivity and Specificity | 213 |
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