Public health and epidemiology at a glance / Margaret Somerville, Kalyanaraman Kumaran, Robert Anderson.
This brand new title in the market-leading 'At a Glance' series provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to the key concepts of population-level disease prevention. Accessible, double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate the determinants of health which impact on healt...
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Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2012.
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Series: | At a glance series (Oxford, England)
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the authors; 1 Introduction to public health; Domains of public health; Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice; 2 Incidence and prevalence; Definitions; Rates; Descriptive epidemiology; 3 Risks and odds; Risk, relative risk and absolute risk difference; Odds and odds ratio; 4 Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation; Hierarchy of evidence; Establishing a causal relationship; 5 Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies; Bias; Confounding; Chance; 6 Standardisation; Why do we need to standardise data?