TY - BOOK AU - Krickeberg,Klaus AU - Pham,Van Trong AU - Pham,Thi My Hahn TI - Epidemiology: key to prevention T2 - Statistics for biology and health SN - 9781461412045 (alk. paper) PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Epidemiology KW - Preventive Medicine KW - methods KW - Public Health KW - Epidemiologic Methods N1 - Includes indexes; 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 ER -