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Epidemiology for the uninitiated

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Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why.
Epidemiological information is used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent illness and as a
guide to the management of patients in whom disease has already developed.

Like the clinical findings and pathology, the epidemiology of a disease is an integral part of its
basic description. The subject has its special techniques of data collection and interpretation,
and its necessary jargon for technical terms. This short book aims to provide an ABC of the
epidemiological approach, its terminology, and its methods. Our only assumption will be that
readers already believe that epidemiological questions are worth answering. This introduction
will indicate some of the distinctive characteristics of the epidemiological approach.

Authors of Epidemiology for the uninitiated, fourth edition

D Coggon PHD, DM, FRCP, FFOM

Reader in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Medical Research Council Environmental

Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton
UK

Geoffrey Rose DM, DSC, FRCP, FFPHM

Late Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, London School of

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK

DJP Barker, PHD, MD, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCOG

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Director, Medical Research Council Environmental

Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton I Accept
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• Chapter 1. What is epidemiology?
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• Chapter 4. Measurement error and bias

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• Chapter 4. Measurement error and bias

• Chapter 5. Planning and conducting a survey

• Chapter 6. Ecological studies

• Chapter 7. Longitudinal studies

• Chapter 8. Case-control and cross sectional studies

• Chapter 9. Experimental studies

• Chapter 10. Screening

• Chapter 11. Outbreaks of disease

• Chapter 12. Reading epidemiological reports

• Chapter 13. Further reading

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