Introduction to epidemiology /
Ray M. Merrill
- 5th ed. /
- Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2010.
- xi, 417 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foundations of epidemiology -- Historical developments in epidemiology -- Practical disease concepts in epidemiology -- Design strategies and statistical methods used in descriptive epidemiology -- Descriptive epidemiology according to person, place, and time -- General health and population indicators -- Design strategies and statistical methods used in analytic epidemiology -- Experimental studies in epidemiology -- Causal inference -- Field epidemiology -- Chronic disease epidemiology -- Clinical epidemiology.