Epidemiology for the Uninitiated

Fourth Edition

D Coggon PHD, DM, FRCP, FFOM
Reader in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton UK

Geoffrey Rose DM, DSC, FRCP, FFPHM
late Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK

DJP Barker, PHD, MD, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCOG
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Director, Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton UK

 

Contents

1. What is epidemiology?

2. Quantifying disease in populations

3. Comparing disease rates

4. Measurement error and bias

5. Planning and conducting a survey

6. Ecological studies

7. Longitudinal studies

8. Case-control and cross sectional studies

9. Experimental studies

10. Screening

11. Outbreaks of disease

12. Reading epidemiological reports

13. Further reading

 

Copyright BMJ Publishing Group 1997

 

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