Krickeberg, Klaus <br/><br/>
Epidemiology :  key to prevention / 
Klaus Krickeberg, Pham Thi My Hanh, Pham Van Trong 
 - New York :  Springer,  2012 
 - xv, 255 p. :  ill., map ;  24 cm. 
 - Statistics for biology and health .
 - Statistics for biology and health. .
<br/><br/> Includes indexes 
<br/><br/>Idea of epidemiology -- Uses and applications of epidemiology -- Some case studies and situation analyses -- Infectious diseases: descriptive epidemiology, transmission, surveillance, control -- Infectious diseases: modelling, immunity -- Diarrhoea and cholera -- Tuberculosis and malaria -- Dengue fever -- Viral hepatitis -- HIV/AIDS -- Origin of information: registers and health information systems -- Origin of information: sampling -- Descriptive data analysis and statistics -- Normal law and applications: sample size, confidence intervals, tests -- Basic concepts of epidemiology -- Cross-sectional studies -- Cohort studies -- Clinical (therapeutic) trials -- Clinical epidemiology -- Case-control studies -- Confounding -- Epidemiology of cancer -- Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases -- Community studies -- Nutritional and environmental epidemiology -- Social and genetic epidemiology -- Some practical considerations around epidemiologic studies 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781461412045 (alk. paper) 1461412048 (alk. paper) 9781461412052 (e-ISBN) 1461412056 (e-ISBN) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Epidemiology<br/>Preventive Medicine--methods<br/>Public Health--methods<br/>Epidemiologic Methods