TY - BOOK AU - Hennekens,Charles H. AU - Buring,Julie E. AU - Mayrent,Sherry L. TI - Epidemiology in medicine SN - 0316356360 (pbk.) U1 - 614.4 PY - 1987/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Epidemiology N1 - Includes bibliographies and index; I. Basic concepts. - 1. Definition and background. - 2. Design, strategies in epidemiologic research. - 3. Statistical association and cause-effect relationships. - 4. Measures of disease frequency and association. - II. Types of epidemiologic studies. - 5. Descriptive studies. - 6. Case-control studies. - 7. Cohort studies. - 8. Intervention studies. - III. Description and analysis of epidemiologic data. - 9. Presentation and summarization of data. - 10. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of chance. - 11. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of bias. - 12. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of confounding. - IV. Epidemiology in disease control. - 13. Screening ER -