Raymond Greenberg, Stephen Daniels, W. Flanders

Medical Epidemiology

Population Health and Effective Health Care, Fifth Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Medical Epidemiology provides readers with a complete overview of the principles and concepts of epidemiology and illustrates the contemporary relationship between population-based science and the care of patients.

Produktdetails

• LANGE Basic Science
• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
• 5 ed
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780071822725
• ISBN-10: 0071822720
• Artikelnr.: 41452798

Autorenporträt

Raymond S. Greenberg, MD, PhD President Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Population Health
Chapter 1: Populations
a. Community
b. Region
c. Country
d. Global
e. Special populations
Chapter 2: Metrics
a. Prevalence
b. Incidence rate
c. Mortality rate
d. Infant mortality
e. Life expectancy
f. Years of potential life lost
g. Disability-adjusted life years
Chapter 3: Patterns of Occurrence
a. Age
b. Race/ethnicity
c. Gender
d. Geographic
e. Temporal
Chapter 4: Global Burden of Disease
a. Study design and goals
b. Mortality patterns
c. Healthy life expectancy
d. Disability-adjusted life years
e. Risk factors
Chapter 5: Social Determinants of Health
a. Definition
b. Whitehall Study
c. Education
d. Income
e. Housing
f. Food security
g. Physical and social environment
Chapter 6: Health Disparities
a. Health Inequities
b. Social determinants
c. Culture
d. Discrimination
e. Access to care
f. Quality of care
Section II. Collecting Evidence for Medical Practice
Chapter 7: Clinical trials
a. Design
b. Subject selection
c. Randomization
d. Blinding
e. Analysis
f. Sample size
g. Limitations
Chapter 8: Cohort studies
a. Design
b. Subject selection
c. Exposure asse