/ Klaus Krickeberg, Pham Thi My Hanh, Pham Van Trong
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2012.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 255 p.
Other Physical Details
: ill., map
Dimensions
; 24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
(Statistics for biology and health)
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Electronic
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes indexes
CONTENTS NOTE
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Idea of epidemiology -- Uses and applications of epidemiology -- Some case studies and situation analyses -- Infectious diseases: descriptive epidemiology, transmission, surveillance, control -- Infectious diseases: modelling, immunity -- Diarrhoea and cholera -- Tuberculosis and malaria -- Dengue fever -- Viral hepatitis -- HIV/AIDS -- Origin of information: registers and health information systems -- Origin of information: sampling -- Descriptive data analysis and statistics -- Normal law and applications: sample size, confidence intervals, tests -- Basic concepts of epidemiology -- Cross-sectional studies -- Cohort studies -- Clinical (therapeutic) trials -- Clinical epidemiology -- Case-control studies -- Confounding -- Epidemiology of cancer -- Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases -- Community studies -- Nutritional and environmental epidemiology -- Social and genetic epidemiology -- Some practical considerations around epidemiologic studies.