"With a focus on practical applications and examples, this book contains four main sections: Section I defines the social determinants of health at a place/population level and discusses their significance in light of current methodological limitations in identifying their impac…
"With a focus on practical applications and examples, this book contains four main sections: Section I defines the social determinants of health at a place/population level and discusses their significance in light of current methodological limitations in identifying their impac…
This book is a philosophically sophisticated and scientifically well-informed discussion of the moral and social issues raised by genetically engineering animals, a powerful technology which has major implications for society. Unlike other books on this emotionally charged subje…
Epidemiology for advanced nursing practice
Epidemiology for Advanced Nursing Practice guides graduate-level nursing students to understand the basic concepts of epidemiology while gaining and applying statistical conceptual skills. Focusing on the importance of disease prevention and community-centered migration, this te…
Epidemiology for Advanced Nursing Practice guides graduate-level nursing students to understand the basic concepts of epidemiology while gaining and applying statistical conceptual skills. Focusing on the importance of disease prevention and community-centered migration, this te…
Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials is a comprehensive, concise, and clinically oriented introduction to the subject of epidemiology. Written by expert educators, this text introduces students to the principles of evidence-based medicine that will help them develop and apply m…
Robert Fletcher and Suzanne Fletcher (both emeritus, population medicine, Harvard U. and epidemiology and social medicine, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Grant Fletcher (medicine, U. of Washington-Seattle) revise from the 2004 edition their guide to epidemiology for healt…
Now in its Fifth Edition, a comprehensive, concise, and clinically oriented introduction to the subject of epidemiology. Written by expert educators, this text introduces students to the principles of evidence-based medicine that will help them develop and apply methods of clini…
Now in its Fifth Edition, a comprehensive, concise, and clinically oriented introduction to the subject of epidemiology. Written by expert educators, this text introduces students to the principles of evidence-based medicine that will help them develop and apply methods of clini…
Topics include sampling frame evaluation, sample design, development of questionnaires, evaluation of questions, alternative modes of data collection, interviewing, nonresponse, post-collection processing of survey data, and practices for maintaining scientific integrity.