Epidemiology: Health and Disease in Populations
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چکیده
1. What Is Epidemiology? 2. Purposes of Epidemiology 3. Defining and Measuring Health and Disease 3.1. Disease Nomenclature and Classification 3.2. Counting Disease 3.3. Severity of Disease 3.3.1. Mortality 3.3.2. Morbidity 3.3.3. Composite Measures Combining Morbidity and Mortality 4. Descriptive Epidemiology 4.1 Infectious Disease Triad 4.2 Descriptive Epidemiology Triad 4.3. Health Indicators 5. Epidemiological Approaches to Understanding Causal Relations 5.1 Concept of Cause 5.2 Study Designs to Investigate Causal Relationships 5.2.1 Cohort Study Design 5.2.2 Case-Control Study Design 5.2.3 Complicating Factors 6. Experimental Epidemiology: The Randomized Trial 7. Epidemiology for Health Systems: Use in Policy, Planning, and Assessment 8. The Future of Epidemiology Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketch
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