Modern infectious disease epidemiology

✍ Scribed by Giesecke, Johan

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Edition: Third edition
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content: What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? --
Definitions --
Descriptive epidemiology --
Risk, relative risk, and attack rate --
The case-control study : odds, odds ratio
the concept of confounding --
The cohort study : rates.
the concept of bias --
The cohort study: rates
the concept of bias --
Clinical epidemiology : sensitivity, specificity, misclassification --
Multivariate analysis and interaction --
Survival analysis --
Mathematical models for epidemics --
Detection and analysis of outbreaks --
Routine surveillance of infectious diseases --
Measuring infectivity --
Studying the natural history of infectious diseases --
Seroepidemiology --
The study of contact patterns --
Methods to decide whether or not an illness is infectious --
The epidemiology of vaccination --
The use of subtyping.

✦ Subjects

Communicable diseases.;Epidemiology.;Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology.;Epidemiologic Methods.;Epidemiologie;Infektionskrankheit