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This popular book is written by the award-winning teacher, Dr. Leon Gordis of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
A now-classic text, the second edition of this essential introduction to epidemiology presents the core concepts in a unified approach that aims to cut through the fog and elucidate the fundamental concepts.
Updated and expanded, this edition shows students how statistical principles and techniques can help solve epidemiological problems.
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Epidemiology: Principles and Methods
The second edition of this essential introduction to epidemiology presents the core concepts in a unified approach that aims to cut through the fog and elucidate the fundamental concepts.
This book is specifically designed to expand reader knowledge while avoiding complex statistical formulations.
Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this to the control of health.
The book also reexamines the basic difference between the epidemiology of infectious diseases and that of non-infectious ones. The organization of the topics by didactic aspects makes the book ideal for teaching.