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Principles and Practice of Epidemiology: An Engaged Approach
Annette M. Rossignol, Oregon State University

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 Historical Development

3 What is an Epidemic?

4 Measuring Disease Frequency: Incidence Rate

5 Prevalence and Its Application to Screening Programs

6 Cumulative Incidence (Risk)

7 Design Strategies: Descriptive Studies

8 Causation

9 Design Strategies--Analytic Studies Part 1, The Intervention Studies

10 Design Strategies: The Analytic Studies Part 2: Observational Studies

11 Simple Analysis of Epidemiologic Data: Effect Measures

12 Accuracy

Epilogue: Engaged Epidemiology









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