Jekel's epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health / Joann G. Elmore, Dorothea M.G. Wild, Heidi D. Nelson, David L. Katz.

Online resource; title from table of contents page (Elsevier ClinicalKey, viewed April 20, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basic Epidemiologic Concepts and Principles -- Epidemiologic Data Measurements -- Epidemiologic Surveillance and Epidemic Outbreak Investigation -- The Study of Risk Factors and Causation -- Common Research Designs and Issues in Epidemiology -- Assessment of Risk and Benefit in Epidemiologic Studies -- Understanding the Quality of Data in Clinical Medicine -- Statistical Foundations of Clinical Decisions -- Describing Variation in Data -- Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing -- Bivariate Analysis -- Applying Statistics to Trial Design : Sample Size, Randomization, and Control for Multiple Hypotheses -- Introduction to Preventive Medicine -- Methods of Primary Prevention : Health Promotion -- Principles and Practice of Secondary Prevention -- Methods of Tertiary Prevention -- Clinical Preventive Services (United States Preventive Services Task Force) -- Chronic Disease Prevention -- Prevention of Infectious Diseases -- Mental and Behavioral Health -- Occupational Medicine -- Introduction to Public Health -- Public Health System : Structure and Function -- Public Health Practice in Communities -- Disaster Epidemiology and Surveillance -- Health Management, Health Administration, and Quality Improvement -- Health Care Organization, Policy, and Financing -- One Health : Interdependence of People, Other Species, and the Planet -- Supplement One Health : Interdependence of People, Other Species, and the Planet.

Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health is the only textbook that combines the disciplines of medical epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health in one convenient resource. Written by renowned epidemiologists and public health experts, this text presents the information with a clinical focus, using real-life medical examples throughout. With review questions in each chapter to maximize knowledge retention and target key areas of review, it serves as an outstanding resource for USMLE prep - and is recommended by the American Board of Preventive Medicine as a top review source for its core specialty examination.

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