Field Epidemiology 3rd ed.

✍ Scribed by Michael Gregg

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 593
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The new edition of this classic text continues its mission of describing the application of basic epidemiologic principles in real time, place, and person to solve problems of an urgent or emergency nature. Based on decades of experience in both infectious and noninfectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this book describes in clear and practical terms the distinct approach, tasks, and actions needed for successful field investigations. Guidance is given on such issues as how to perform surveillance, manage and execute field investigatins, collect and analyze data, perform surveys, adapt a personal computer for field use, and communicate the findings. Specific advice is also given on such subjects as dealing with the media; investigations in health care, day care, and international settings; and the legal aspects of field studies. An entire chapter covers the proper collection, handling, and testing of infectious and noninfectious agents in the field. This edition contains new chapters on environmental investigations and immunization practices for the field epidemiologist. The boko is based both on science and experience. It deals with real problems, real places, and real people: nature's experiment rather than carefully designed studies in a laboratory or clinical setting. So, in the lexicon of the epidemiologist, the book addresses issues relating to observational- not experimental- epidemiology.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 14
Contributors......Page 18
I. BACKGROUND......Page 22
1 Field Epidemiology Defined......Page 24
2 A Brief Review of the Basic Principles of Epidemiology......Page 37
3 Surveillance......Page 59
II. THE FIELD INVESTIGATION......Page 86
4 Operational Aspects of Epidemiologic Field Investigations......Page 88
5 Conducting a Field Investigation......Page 102
6 Surveys and Sampling......Page 118
7 Using a Computer for Field Investigations......Page 139
8 Designing Studies in the Field......Page 159
9 Describing the Findings: Descriptive Epidemiology......Page 177
10 Analyzing and Interpreting Data......Page 220
11 Developing Interventions......Page 257
12 Communicating Epidemiologic Findings......Page 270
13 Dealing with the Public and the Media......Page 283
III. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 300
14 Legal Considerations in Surveillance and Field Epidemiology......Page 302
15 Immunization Practices for the Field Epidemiologist......Page 322
16 Investigations in Health-Care Settings......Page 336
17 Investigations in Out-of-Home Child Care Settings......Page 359
18 Field Investigations of Environmental Epidemics......Page 376
19 Field Investigations of Occupational Disease and Injury......Page 397
20 Field Investigations from the State and Local Health Department Perspective......Page 418
21 Epidemiologic Practices in Low-Income Countries......Page 440
22 Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response for the Field Epidemiologist......Page 460
23 Field Investigations of Natural Disasters and Complex Emergencies......Page 480
24 Laboratory Support for the Epidemiologist in the Field......Page 500
Appendix: A Walk-through Exercise......Page 545
A......Page 572
C......Page 573
D......Page 575
E......Page 577
F......Page 579
G......Page 580
H......Page 581
I......Page 582
L......Page 583
M......Page 584
N......Page 585
O......Page 586
P......Page 587
R......Page 588
S......Page 589
T......Page 591
V......Page 592
Z......Page 593