Epidemiologic speculations and research findings increasingly blaze across media headlines and heighten anxiety among the public. Understanding the foundations of such news can be daunting. Now in its third edition, Epidemiology for Public Health Practice has become a favorite textbook for undergraduate and graduate students new to epidemiology by providing a comprehensive look at all major topics, from study designs and descriptive epidemiology, to quantitative measures and terminology. Distinguishing itself from other texts with its accessible writing style and immediacy of information presented, the Third Edition has been extensively revised, with updated data and statistics essential to understanding the importance of epidemiology to public health.
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The book is very well written. Clean examples are given. The authors do a great job of avoiding complex and confusing examples. The book made epidemiology more interesting and much easier to understand than it could have been. Charts, graphs, and tables help clear up differences between similar concepts and provide examples of concepts.
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Good basic reference for Epidemiology,
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This was a purchase that I made in order to participate in a master's level epidemiology course. It was perfectly complex for those interested in, but not yet involved in the health fields. Not too complicated and jargon filled, not too simplified. It provided a well rounded background for the subject matter with many background/historical reports for further elucidation of this field. It also included a wide variety of graphs, lists, information sources, etc. that are of use to those in the public heath field.
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good text book for epidemiology,
This review is from: Epidemiology for Public Health Practice (Friis, Epidemiology for Public Health Practice) (Paperback)
Friis and Sellers's epidemiology book is a good one for beginers and for reveiwing basic stuffs for everybody. It is full of examples which make this book very friendly and easy to understand.
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causal thinking, public health practice activities, population risk difference, interaction with smoking, chili pepper consumption, significant infectious diseases, epidemiologic description, more gestation, molecular and genetic epidemiology, ecologic fallacy, stress process model, secondary attack rate, observational study designs, epidemiologic research, health phenomenon, ecologic studies, health phenomena, experimental study designs, fetal death rate, epidemiologic study designs, etiologic hypotheses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Public Health, Oxford University Press, World Health Organization, National Vital Statistics Reports, Accessed October, Accessed November, African Americans, National Institutes of Health, Broad Street, National Cancer Institute, Epidemiol Rev, Bureau of the Census, Mexican Americans, Hong Kong, Accessed December, Iowa Women's Health Study, Hum Genet, Healthy People, American Cancer Society, Long Beach, Dictionary of Epidemiology, Gulf War, American Indians Browse Sample Pages:
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Controversies and speculations regarding the findings of epidemiologic research are frequent topics of media reports; these findings sometimes arouse public hysteria. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
causal thinking, public health practice activities, population risk difference, interaction with smoking, chili pepper consumption, significant infectious diseases, epidemiologic description, more gestation, molecular and genetic epidemiology, ecologic fallacy, stress process model, secondary attack rate, observational study designs, epidemiologic research, health phenomenon, ecologic studies, health phenomena, experimental study designs, fetal death rate, epidemiologic study designs, etiologic hypotheses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Public Health, Oxford University Press, World Health Organization, National Vital Statistics Reports, Accessed October, Accessed November, African Americans, National Institutes of Health, Broad Street, National Cancer Institute, Epidemiol Rev, Bureau of the Census, Mexican Americans, Hong Kong, Accessed December, Iowa Women's Health Study, Hum Genet, Healthy People, American Cancer Society, Long Beach, Dictionary of Epidemiology, Gulf War, American Indians Browse Sample Pages:
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