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- catalog abstract ""Concepts in Epidemiology explains and illustrates the language, principles, and methods underlying the science of epidemiology, and its applications to policy making, health service planning and health promotion. Illustrated, there are exercises to help readers deepen their understanding, with detailed material captured in tables. Each chapter ends in a summary, and all technical and specialized terminology is explained and defined in a glossary. The book places particular emphasis on integrating the ideas of epidemiology."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12541375.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""Concepts in Epidemiology explains and illustrates the language, principles, and methods underlying the science of epidemiology, and its applications to policy making, health service planning and health promotion. Illustrated, there are exercises to help readers deepen their understanding, with detailed material captured in tables. Each chapter ends in a summary, and all technical and specialized terminology is explained and defined in a glossary. The book places particular emphasis on integrating the ideas of epidemiology."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-309) and index".
- catalog description "What is epidemiology? The nature and scope of a biological, social, and ecological science and of epidemiological variables and outcomes -- The individual and the population -- Definition of epidemiology and statement of its central paradigm -- Directions in epidemiology and its uses -- Epidemiology as a science, practice, and craft -- The nature of epidemiological variables -- A disease and health problem: an illustration of the interdependence of clinical medicine and epidemiology -- Seeking the theoretical foundations of epidemiology -- The epidemiological concept of population -- The individual and the population -- Harnessing heterogeneity in individual and group level disease and risk factor patterns -- Disease patterns as a manifestation of individuals living in changing social groups -- Sick populations and sick individuals -- Individual and population level epidemiological variables -- Epidemiology and demography: interdependent population sciences -- The dynamic nature of human population -- Applications of the population concept -- Variation in disease by time, place, and person: A framework for analysis -- Reasons for analysing disease variations -- Variations and associations: real or artefact? -- Applying the real-artefact framework -- Disease clustering and clusters in epidemiology -- Applications of observations of disease variation -- Epidemiological theory underpinning or arising from this chapter -- Variation: Role of error, bias, and confounding -- A classification of error and bias.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 317 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0192631551 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "614.4 21".
- catalog subject "Epidemiology.".
- catalog subject "RA650 .B48 2002".
- catalog subject "WA 105 B575c 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "What is epidemiology? The nature and scope of a biological, social, and ecological science and of epidemiological variables and outcomes -- The individual and the population -- Definition of epidemiology and statement of its central paradigm -- Directions in epidemiology and its uses -- Epidemiology as a science, practice, and craft -- The nature of epidemiological variables -- A disease and health problem: an illustration of the interdependence of clinical medicine and epidemiology -- Seeking the theoretical foundations of epidemiology -- The epidemiological concept of population -- The individual and the population -- Harnessing heterogeneity in individual and group level disease and risk factor patterns -- Disease patterns as a manifestation of individuals living in changing social groups -- Sick populations and sick individuals -- Individual and population level epidemiological variables -- Epidemiology and demography: interdependent population sciences -- The dynamic nature of human population -- Applications of the population concept -- Variation in disease by time, place, and person: A framework for analysis -- Reasons for analysing disease variations -- Variations and associations: real or artefact? -- Applying the real-artefact framework -- Disease clustering and clusters in epidemiology -- Applications of observations of disease variation -- Epidemiological theory underpinning or arising from this chapter -- Variation: Role of error, bias, and confounding -- A classification of error and bias.".
- catalog title "Concepts of epidemiology : an integrated introduction to the ideas, theories, principles, and methods of epidemiology / Raj S. Bhopal.".
- catalog type "text".