TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordis,Leon
TI  - Epidemiology
SN  - 9781455737338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Philadelphia, PA
PB  - Elsevier/Saunders
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Epidemiologic Methods
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents 
1.	Introduction
2.	The dynamics of disease transmission 
3.	The occurrence of disease : I. Disease surveillance and measures of morbidity 
4.	The occurrence of disease: II. Mortality and other measures of disease impact 
5.	Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests  
6.	The natural history of disease : ways of expressing prognosis
7.	Assessing preventive and therapeutic measures : randomized trials
8.	Randomized trials : some further issues
9.	Cohort studies 
10.	Case-control studies and other study designs
11.	Estimating risk : is there an association? 
12.	More on risk : estimating the potential for prevention
13.	A pause for review : comparing cohort and case-control studies 
14.	From association to causation : deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies
15.	More on causal inferences : bias, confounding, and interaction 
16.	Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation 
17.	Using epidemiology to evaluate health services 
18.	The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs
19.	Epidemiology and public policy 
20.	Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology

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