Epidemiology: key to prevention

by Krickeberg, Klaus

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Title Statements

Full title :Epidemiology : key to prevention / Klaus Krickeberg, Pham Thi My Hanh, Pham Van Trong.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

Notes

Includes indexes.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 255 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781461412045, 1461412048, 9781461412052, 1461412056
oclc:ocn740624921
LC Classification:RA651
Dewey Decimal:614.4

Idea of epidemiology -- Uses and applications of epidemiology -- Some case studies and situation analyses -- Infectious diseases: descriptive epidemiology, transmission, surveillance, control -- Infectious diseases: modelling, immunity -- Diarrhoea and cholera -- Tuberculosis and malaria -- Dengue fever -- Viral hepatitis -- HIV/AIDS -- Origin of information: registers and health information systems -- Origin of information: sampling -- Descriptive data analysis and statistics -- Normal law and applications: sample size, confidence intervals, tests -- Basic concepts of epidemiology -- Cross-sectional studies -- Cohort studies -- Clinical (therapeutic) trials -- Clinical epidemiology -- Case-control studies -- Confounding -- Epidemiology of cancer -- Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases -- Community studies -- Nutritional and environmental epidemiology -- Social and genetic epidemiology -- Some practical considerations around epidemiologic studies.