TY - BOOK AU - Gordis,Leon TI - Epidemiology SN - 9781455737338 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - RA651 .G58 2014 U1 - 614.4 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Philadelphia, PA. PB - Elsevier/Saunders KW - Epidemiology KW - Epidemiologic Methods N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The dynamics of disease transmission -- The occurrence of disease : I. Disease surveillance and measures of morbidity -- The occurrence of disease: II. Mortality and other measures of disease impact -- Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests -- The natural history of disease : ways of expressing prognosis -- Assessing preventive and therapeutic measures : randomized trials -- Randomized trials : some further issues -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies and other study designs -- Estimating risk : is there an association? -- More on risk : estimating the potential for prevention -- A pause for review : comparing cohort and case-control studies -- From association to causation : deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies -- More on causal inferences : bias, confounding, and interaction -- Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation -- Using epidemiology to evaluate health services -- The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs -- Epidemiology and public policy -- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology ER -