Epidemiology for Public Health PracticeProvides comprehensive coverage of all major topics in introductory epidemiology. It includes updated data and statistics essential to understanding the importance of epidemiology to public health. Case studies throughout the book demonstrate to students how epidemiologic principles are applied to current real-life situations and settings. |
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Inhalt
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| 14 | |
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| 85 | |
Person Place Time | 127 |
Characteristics of Place | 152 |
Cohort Studies | 253 |
46 | 259 |
Experimental Study Designs | 295 |
Measures of Effect | 327 |
Data Interpretation Issues | 345 |
Screening for Disease in the Community | 369 |
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases | 397 |
Epidemiologic Aspects of Work and | 445 |
Characteristics of Time | 163 |
Conclusion | 169 |
Project Descriptive Epidemiology | 176 |
xi | 180 |
123 | 193 |
14 | 204 |
Ecologic CrossSectional Case | 213 |
22 | 230 |
Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology | 475 |
Psychologic Behavioral and Social Epidemiology | 513 |
Appendix A Guide to the Critical Appraisal of | 544 |
Appendix BAnswers to Selected Study Questions | 557 |
Glossary | 567 |
Index | 585 |
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Seite 140 - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East. Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands.
Seite 140 - Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicate their race as "Native Hawaiian," "Guamanian or Chamorro," "Samoan,
Seite 23 - Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly should proceed thus: in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces (for they are not at all alike, but differ much from themselves in regard to their changes).
Seite 23 - And many of those who had no one to look after them actually plunged into the cisterns, for they were tormented by unceasing thirst, which was not in the least assuaged whether they drank little or much. They could not sleep; a restlessness which was intolerable never left them. While the disease was at its height the body, instead of wasting away, held out amid these sufferings in a...
Seite 24 - There have been Buried from the year 1628, to the year 1662, exclusive, 209436 Males, and but 190474 Females: but it will be objected, That in London it may be indeed so, though otherwise elsewhere ; because London is the great Stage and Shop of business, wherein the Masculine Sex bears the greatest...
Seite 183 - Relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual...
Seite 72 - All scientific work is incomplete — whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time.
Seite 22 - Many who were in perfect health, all in a moment, and without any apparent reason, were seized with violent heats in the head and with redness and inflammation of the eyes. Internally the throat and the tongue were quickly suffused with blood, and the breath became unnatural and fetid. There followed sneezing and hoarseness ; in a short time the disorder, accompanied by a violent cough, reached the chest; then fastening lower down, it would move the stomach and bring on all the vomits of bile to...
Seite 27 - The most terrible outbreak of cholera which ever occurred in this kingdom, is probably that which took place in Broad Street, Golden Square, and the adjoining streets, a few weeks ago.
Seite 139 - American Indian or Alaska Native. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. It includes people who classified themselves as described below. American Indian. Includes people who indicated their race as "American Indian...
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Epidemiology for Public Health Practice |
| Autoren | Robert H. Friis, Thomas A. Sellers |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0763731706, 9780763731700 |
| Länge | 616 Seiten |
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