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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
At last, a good intro to epi book for students!,
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This review is from: Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health (Paperback)
This book is an excellent introduction to epidemiology. The authors present epidemiologic concepts in an easy-to-understand manner with interesting supportive examples from the fields of reproductive health and HIV epidemiology. In addition to the standard chapters on study design, bias, and confounding, the book also includes very good chapters on measurement error, causation, and screening, as well as tried-and-proven guidelines for a critical review of epidemiologic studies. This text should be very helpful to beginning masters and doctoral students in epidemiology and public health.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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a great intro to epidemiology,
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This review is from: Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health (Paperback)
This was a required text for a graduate intro to epidemiology course that I took, and I've held on to it since then. Overall the content is well organized and clearly written. That being said, there were also a few important sections that I found very confusing, and there do appear to be at least a few errors in text and arithmetic. The authors are generally fairly concise in their descriptions of types of studies, sources of error, etc., which makes for good overall readability, however I often wished they would give a few more details and examples. In spite of these criticisms, I've looked through a lot of epidemiology books, and they all seem to have limitations. It's probably impossible to identify one introductory text that will be the best choice for everyone. No matter which one you pick up, you will likely benefit from having another one on hand for comparison when a passage or problem is unclear, confusing or underemphasized. In my opinion this book is an excellent choice for those with a general interest in epidemiology for public health practice and who are looking for good readability. I've found that it also serves as a good basic reference on epidemiological studies.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent, Easy and User Friendly,
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This is a great text for anyone studying epidemiology.
Each chapter on the various aspects of Epi (ie, Confounding, Effect Modification, Random Error, Bias, Causation, etc) is readable, relatively short chapters (no more then 20 pages) and very clearly explains the necessary information. Each chapter then has a concise (less then one page) summary, perfect for test studying or board review. In addition, each chapter has test questions with answers posted at the back of the book. This book even explains the underlying mathmetical principles better then most statistic texts I've used. While you could probably get through Epidemialogy just reading the lecture notes, this book will guarantee you understand it (with out spending too much time) and get a 4.0.
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hypothetical data, occupational epidemiology, water supply companies, effect measure modification, population rate difference, cumulative incidence difference, dentin lead levels, pathological onset, incidence rate difference, internal comparison group, differential surveillance, ideal comparison group, biological onset, trials dictionary, attributable proportion, active aspirin, nitrite use, hazard period, same source population, detectable preclinical phase, excess relative risk, preclinical disease, developing invasive breast cancer, nondifferential misclassification, exposure misclassification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, National Cancer Institute, Oxford University Press, Broad Street, Epidemiol Rev, American Cancer Society, Accessed August, Declaration of Helsinki, World Health Organization, Surveillance Report, Dictionary of Epidemiology, Census Bureau, World War, John Snow, Health of Americans, John Graunt, Accessed July, Natl Cancer Inst, Six Cities, District of Columbia, Accessed June, Framingham Study, Cape Cod, Environ Health Perspect Browse Sample Pages:
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