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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-08-13
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195300661
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Eras in Epidemiology pdf
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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, and have often contributed to their development. Because the disciplinary focus is on health and disease in populations, epidemiology has always been an integral driver of public health, the vehicle that societies have evolved to combat and contain the scourges of mass diseases.
In this book, the authors trace the evolution of epidemiological ideas from earliest times to the present. Beginning with the early concepts of magic and the humors of Hippocrates, it moves forward through the dawn of observational methods, the systemati Download Eras in Epidemiology for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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