Eras in Epidemiology: The Evolution of Ideas

by Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein

At its core, epidemiology is concerned with changes in health and disease. The discipline requires counts and measures: of births, health disorders, and deaths, and in order to make sense of these counts it requires a population base defined by place and time. Epidemiology relies on closely defined concepts of cause - experimental or observational - of the physical or social environment, or in the laboratory. Epidemiologists are guided by these concepts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195300661
• ISBN13: 9780195300666
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"