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020    9781107529151 
050 00 RA651 |b.W385 2017 
100 1  Webb, Penny,|d1963 
245 10 Essential epidemiology :|bAn introduction for students and
       health professionals /|cPenny Webb,Chris Bain, Andrew 
       Page. 
250    .3rd ed 
260    Cambridge :|bCambridge University Press,|c.2017 
300    xv,494 p:|bill (some color);|c25 cm. 
490    Cambridge Medicine 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Epidemiology is ... -- How long is a piece of string? : 
       measuring disease frequency -- Who, what, where and when?:
       descriptive epidemiology -- Healthy research : study 
       designs for public health -- Why? : linking exposure and 
       disease -- Heads or tails : the role of chance -- All that
       glitters is not gold : the problem of error -- Muddied 
       waters : the challenge of confounding -- Reading 
       betweenthe lines : reading and writing epidemiological 
       papers -- Who sank the boat? : association and causation -
       -Assembling the building blocks : reviews and their uses -
       -Surveillance : collecting health-related data for 
       epidemiological intelligence and public health action / 
       Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh -- Outbreaks, epidemics, and
       clusters / Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh -- Prevention : 
       better than cure? -- Early detection : what benefits at   
       what cost? -- Epidemiology and the publicʹs health. 
520 0  "Taking a practical approach and supported by global 
       examples from all areas of health, the new edition of this
       popular and highly commended textbook has been updated to 
       reflect current epidemiological thinking and 
       teaching.Based on feedback from teachers and students, 
       material has been reordered to better suit courses and 
       reflect the underlying logic and purpose of epidemiology."
       -- Publisher 
650  0 Epidemiology 
650    Epidemiologic Methods 
700 1  Bain, Chris,|d1947 
700 1  Page, Andrew,|d1974 
830  0 Cambridge medicine