Applied Epidemiology: Theory to Practice

by Ross C. Brownson

Book Overview

Focusing on areas of public health practice in which the systematic application of epidemiologic methods can have a large and positive impact, this text applies traditional epidemiologic methods for determining disease etiology to the "real-life" applications of public health and health services research. Brownson and Petitti--true to their belief that epidemiology is the diagnostic discipline of public health--provide a much-needed book that bridges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195111907
• ISBN13: 9780195111903
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.3" x 6.2"

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