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Epidemiology [electronic resource] : Key to Prevention / by Klaus Krickeberg, Van Trong Pham, Thi My Hanh Pham.

Krickeberg, Klaus. (author.). Pham, Van Trong. (author.). Pham, Thi My Hanh. (author.). SpringerLink (Online service) (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781461412052
  • Physical Description: XV, 255p. 5 illus. online resource.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : 2012.
Subject: Medicine.
Epidemiology.
Statistical methods.
Statistics.
Medicine & Public Health.
Epidemiology.
Biostatistics.
Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

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Idea of epidemiology
Uses and applications of epidemiology
Some case studies and situation analyses
Infectious diseases: descriptive epidemiology, transmission, surveillance, control
Infectious diseases: modelling, immunity
Diarrhoea and cholera
Tuberculosis and malaria
Dengue fever
Viral hepatitis
HIV/AIDS
Origin of information: registers and health information systems
Origin of information: sampling
Descriptive data analysis and statistics
Normal law and applications: sample size, confidence intervals, tests
Basic concepts of epidemiology
Cross-sectional studies
Cohort studies
Clinical (therapeutic) trials
Clinical epidemiology
Case-control studies
Confounding
Epidemiology of cancer
Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases
Community studies
Nutritional and environmental epidemiology
Social and genetic epidemiology
Some practical considerations around epidemiologic studies.

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