Essential Epidemiology : An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals (Paperback)

1. Epidemiology is …; 2. How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency; 3. Who, what, where and when? Finding and using public health data; 4. Watching not waiting: surveillance and epidemiological intelligence; 5. Why? Linking exposure and disease; 6. Solid foundations: research designs for public health; 7. All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error; 8. Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding; 9. Bringing it together: reading and writing papers in practice; 10. Who sank the boat? Association and causation; 11. Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses; 12. Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters; 13. Prevention: better than cure?; 14. Early detection: what benefits at what cost?; 15. A final word …