Essentials of infectious disease epidemiology /
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Author / Creator: | Magnus, Manya. |
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Imprint: | Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Pub, c2008. |
Description: | viii, 227 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Essential public health series Essential public health. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6646121 |
Table of Contents:
- Why learn methods in infectious disease epidemiology?
- Why study methods?
- Descriptive infectious disease epidemiology
- Outbreak investigations
- Rates and measures
- Laying the foundation: how to conduct a study
- Experimental designs as a foundation for observational studies
- Cohort studies
- Case-control and cross-sectional studies
- Interpretation of epidemiologic data
- Threats to internal and external validity of concern in the study of infectious disease epidemiology
- Surveillance of infectious diseases
- Program evaluation in the infectious disease setting.