A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology
A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology is a stand-alone introductory text on the basic principles and concepts of epidemiology. The primary audience for this text is the public health student or professional, clinician, health journalist, and anyone else at any a
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David G. Kleinbaum Kevin M. Sullivan Nancy D. Barker
A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology
Kevin M. Sullivan Department of Epidemiology Rollins School of Public Health Emory University 1518 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30322 USA [email protected]
David G. Kleinbaum Department of Epidemiology Rollins School of Public Health Emory University 1518 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30322 USA [email protected] Nancy D. Barker 2465 Traywick Chase Alpharetta, GA 30004 USA [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006933294 ISBN-10: 0-387-45964-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-45964-6
e-ISBN-10: 0-387-45966-9 e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-45966-0
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Preface Four years ago (2002), I (DGK) authored a unique educational program, ActivEpi (Springer Publishers), developed in CD-ROM format to provide a multimedia interactive “electronic textbook” on basic principles and methods of epidemiology. In 2003, the ActivEpi Companion Text, authored by myself (DGK), KM Sullivan and ND Barker and also published by Springer, was developed to provide a hardcopy of the material contained in the ActivEpi CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains 15 chapters, with each consisting of a collection of “activities” including narrated expositions, interactive study questions, quizzes, homework questions, and web links to relevant references on the Internet. In the nearly three years since the publication of the ActivEpi CD-ROM, we have received several suggestions from instructors of introductory epidemiology courses as well as health and medical professionals to produce an abbreviated version that narrows the discussion to the most “essential” principles and methods. Instructors expressed to us their concern that the material covered by the CDROM (and likewise, the Companion Text) was too comprehensive to conveniently fit the amount of time available in an introductory course. Professionals expressed their desire for a more economically time-consuming version that would conveniently fit their “after hours” availability. To address these suggestions, we have herewith produced A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology which provides a much shorter, more “essential” version of the material covered by the ActivEpi CD-ROM and Companion Text. We realize that det
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