As an increasing number of colleges and universities call for an epidemiologic content into liberal arts programs. This title is designed to meet the needs of instructors teaching and overview or introductory course of epidemiology. In an easy-to-read and understandable format, the text demonstrates applied approaches in everyday life and also to specific health outcomes.

 

Key Features:

 

• Numbers case studies

• Text boxes and vignettes throughout

• Exhibits

• Photographs

• Figures

• Illustrations

 

Looking for more real-life evidence? Check out Cases 1-5, 19, & 21 in Essential Case Studies in Public Health, Putting Public Health into Practice.

Chapter 1 History, Philosophy, and Uses of Epidemiology

Chapter 2 Epidemiologic Measurements Used to Describe Disease Occurrence

Chapter 3 Data and Disease

Chapter 4 Descriptive Epidemiology: Patterns of Disease-Person, Place, Time

Chapter 5 Estimating Associations

Chapter 6 Analytic Epidemiology: Types of Study Designs

Chapter 7 Epidemiology and the Policy Arena

Chapter 8 Infectious Diseases and Outbreak Investigation

Chapter 9 Social and Behavioral Epidemiology

Chapter 10 Special Epidemiologic Investigations

 

Glossary

Index