Essentials of infectious disease epidemiology /

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Author / Creator:Magnus, Manya.
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
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ISBN:9780763734442 (pbk.)
0763734446 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.