Describes and illustrates epidemiology and its applications to policy making, health service planning, and health promotion. The book emphasises interactive learning, with each chapter including learning objectives, theoretical and numerical exercises, questions and answers, and a summary.
Describes and illustrates epidemiology and its applications to policy making, health service planning, and health promotion. The book emphasises interactive learning, with each chapter including learning objectives, theoretical and numerical exercises, questions and answers, and a summary.
Raj Bhopal is currently Emeritus Professor of Public Health at The University of Edinburgh. His books are Concepts of Epidemiology, Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes; Explaining the Phenomenon in South Asians Worldwide; and Migration, Ethnicity, race and Health. His academic publications include about 350 journal articles, on topics including Legionnaires' disease, primary care epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, ethnicity and health and the pandemic of COVID-19. He is currently focusing on ethnic variations in disease, with a special emphasis on how to respond to this knowledge with more effective public health interventions and clinical services. As Chairman of the Executive Committees he was leader of the first World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health 2018. Raj Bhopal was appointed CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2001.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: What is epidemiology? The nature, scope, variables, principal measures, and designs of a biological, clinical, social and ecological science * 2: The epidemiological concept of population * 3: Variation in disease by time, place, and person: Background and a framework for analysis of genetic and environmental effects * 4: Error, bias and confounding in epidemiology * 5: Cause and effect - The epidemiological approach * 6: Interrelated concepts in the epidemiology of disease: Natural history and incubation period, time trends in populations, spectrum, iceberg, and screening * 7: The concept of risk and fundamental measures of disease frequency: Incidence and prevalence * 8: Summarising, presenting and interpreting epidemiological data: building on incidence and prevalence * 9: Epidemiological study designs and principles of data analysis: A conceptually integrated suite of methods and techniques * 10: Epidemiology in the past, present and the future: Theory, ethics, context, and critical appraisal * Appendix 1: Possible curriculum for taught courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students and in continuing education * Appendix 2: Useful websites * Index
* 1: What is epidemiology? The nature, scope, variables, principal measures, and designs of a biological, clinical, social and ecological science * 2: The epidemiological concept of population * 3: Variation in disease by time, place, and person: Background and a framework for analysis of genetic and environmental effects * 4: Error, bias and confounding in epidemiology * 5: Cause and effect - The epidemiological approach * 6: Interrelated concepts in the epidemiology of disease: Natural history and incubation period, time trends in populations, spectrum, iceberg, and screening * 7: The concept of risk and fundamental measures of disease frequency: Incidence and prevalence * 8: Summarising, presenting and interpreting epidemiological data: building on incidence and prevalence * 9: Epidemiological study designs and principles of data analysis: A conceptually integrated suite of methods and techniques * 10: Epidemiology in the past, present and the future: Theory, ethics, context, and critical appraisal * Appendix 1: Possible curriculum for taught courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students and in continuing education * Appendix 2: Useful websites * Index
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