Introduction to epidemiology / Ray M. Merrill

Foundations of epidemiology - Historic developments in epidemiology - Practical disease concepts in epidemiology - Design strategies and statistical methods in descriptive epidemiology - Descriptive epidemiology according to person, place, and time - General health and population indicators - Design strategies and statistical methods in analytic epidemiology - Experimental studies in epidemiology – causality - Field epidemiology - Chronic disease epidemiology - Clinical epidemiology - Appendix I case studies - Appendix II measures of association used with types of exposure and outcome data - Appendix III common study designs with selected measures of association and test statistics - Appendix IV summary of confidence intervals for evaluating selected hypotheses - Appendix V classification and specialty journals in epidemiology - Appendix VI epidemiologic associations and societies - Appendix VII selected answers to questions

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