Understanding Epidemiology
Concepts, Skills, and Applications
Seiten
2015
Cognella, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-63487-002-3 (ISBN)
Cognella, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-63487-002-3 (ISBN)
Teaches students the skills required to think critically about public health problems. Students will learn to read, understand, and apply public health literature, develop research hypotheses and design appropriate epidemiological studies, become intelligent consumers of health information, and make distinctions and connections between public health practice and clinical medicine.
Understanding Epidemiology teaches students the skills required to think critically about public health problems. The text takes an interdisciplinary approach to solving epidemiological problems that prepares students for real-world applications of the material.
Students will learn to read, understand, and apply public health literature, develop research hypotheses and design appropriate epidemiological studies, become intelligent consumers of health information, and make distinctions and connections between public health practice and clinical medicine.
The activities and exercises in the text highlight the key concepts and provide students with an understanding of the science of epidemiology.
Specifically written for undergraduate students, the book does not assume a working knowledge of biostatistics. Understanding Epidemiology can be used in introductory epidemiology courses, as well as those in public health study design and research methods.
Understanding Epidemiology teaches students the skills required to think critically about public health problems. The text takes an interdisciplinary approach to solving epidemiological problems that prepares students for real-world applications of the material.
Students will learn to read, understand, and apply public health literature, develop research hypotheses and design appropriate epidemiological studies, become intelligent consumers of health information, and make distinctions and connections between public health practice and clinical medicine.
The activities and exercises in the text highlight the key concepts and provide students with an understanding of the science of epidemiology.
Specifically written for undergraduate students, the book does not assume a working knowledge of biostatistics. Understanding Epidemiology can be used in introductory epidemiology courses, as well as those in public health study design and research methods.
Laura Wheeler Poms earned her Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from George Mason University, where she is now an assistant professor of global and community health. Dr. Poms is an occupational health psychologist whose work has appeared in the Journal of School Health and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Rebecca Smullin Dawson holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Dr. Dawson is currently an assistant professor of biology and global health studies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. She is a former senior analyst and director of environmental health policy at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2015 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | San Diego |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-63487-002-6 / 1634870026 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-63487-002-3 / 9781634870023 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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