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A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology de David G. Kleinbaum

A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology

Autor David G. Kleinbaum, Kevin M. Sullivan, Nancy D. Barker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 dec 2006

Găsim în A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology o abordare pragmatică a sănătății publice, care debutează prin ancorarea teoriei în scenarii și exemple de sănătate din lumea reală. Această metodă facilitează înțelegerea unor concepte care, altfel, ar putea părea abstracte pentru un student la început de drum sau pentru un jurnalist medical. Lucrarea este structurată pentru a ghida cititorul printr-o progresie logică: de la stabilirea designului de studiu și măsurarea frecvenței bolilor, până la analiza impactului asupra sănătății publice și identificarea erorilor de selecție sau de informație.

Putem afirma că acest volum reprezintă o sinteză esențială a expertizei lui David G. Kleinbaum. Dacă în lucrări precum Survival Analysis sau Logistic Regression, autorul explorează profunzimile statistice ale analizei datelor, în acest ghid de buzunar el distilează principiile fundamentale pentru a le face accesibile unui public larg. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de Epidemiologic Research, care se concentrează pe metode cantitative riguroase de planificare, volumul de față prioritizează claritatea și aplicabilitatea imediată.

Ca alternativă la Epidemiology and Biostatistics de Bryan Kestenbaum, acest ghid are avantajul unui format extrem de compact, fiind ideal pentru consultări rapide în timpul stagiilor clinice, fără a sacrifica rigoarea academică specifică editurii Springer. În timp ce alte manuale pot deveni greoaie prin formule matematice complexe, echipa de autori reușește să explice mecanismele tabelelor 2x2 și ale analizelor stratificate într-un limbaj clinic precis, dar ușor de parcurs. Este o resursă care face legătura între teoria universitară și practica de teren în epidemiologie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780387459646
ISBN-10: 0387459642
Pagini: 292
Ilustrații: VII, 284 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:2007
Editura: Springer
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

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De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru studenții în medicină și profesioniștii din sănătate publică care au nevoie de o referință rapidă și clară asupra conceptelor epidemiologice. Cititorul câștigă capacitatea de a evalua validitatea studiilor clinice și de a înțelege corect indicatorii de risc. Formatul de buzunar și stilul concis o transformă într-un instrument de lucru indispensabil pentru oricine dorește să descifreze datele de sănătate publică fără a se pierde în statistici matematice avansate.

Despre autor

David G. Kleinbaum este profesor de biostatistică și epidemiologie la Școala de Sănătate Publică a Universității din Carolina de Nord, deținând un doctorat în domeniu de la aceeași instituție. Cu o carieră de peste zece ani dedicată dezvoltării metodelor statistice aplicate în epidemiologie, acesta este recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a preda subiecte complexe într-un format accesibil. Opera sa include texte fundamentale precum Survival Analysis și Logistic Regression, lucrări care au definit standardele în cercetarea biomedicală și au format generații de epidemiologi și statisticieni la nivel internațional.

Cuprins

A Pocket-Size Introduction.- The Big Picture - with Examples.- How to Set Things Up? Study Designs.- How Often does it Happen? Disease Frequency.- What’s the Answer? Measures of Effect.- What is the Public Health Impact?.- Is There Something Wrong? Validity and Bias.- Were Subjects Chosen Badly? Selection Bias.- Are the Data Correct? Information Bias.- Other Factors Accounted for? Confounding and Interaction.- Confounding can be Confounding - Several Risk Factors.- Simple Analyses- 2×2 Tables are not that Simple.- Control - What It’s all about.- How to Deal with Lots of Tables? Stratified Analysis.- Matching - Seems Easy, But not that Easy.

Recenzii

From the reviews:
"A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology is a useful addition to the ready reference genre of epidemiological texts. … The text offers a comprehensive look at the salient fundamentals of epidemiology. … Organized logically and replete with classic examples, the text offers a firm foundation in epidemiological methodology. … this guide offers more examples and may be a better choice for the reader who desires to become better acquainted with epidemiology." (Gregory E. Gilbert, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 62 (1), 2008)
"The book would be very suitable for public health students, professionals, and teachers interested in time-efficient and enjoyable introduction to epidemiology....this book gives a good basis in the theory behind epidemiolgy and I highly recommend it as a first step into this discipline." (Journal of Applied Statistics, March 2008)
"This book … is a simple-to-read introductory text dealing with the most basic concepts of epidemiology. … It is an abbreviated, stand-alone version that narrows the discussion to the most ‘essential’ principles and methods in epidemiology. … The book would be very suitable for public health students, professionals, and teachers interested in time-efficient and enjoyable introduction to epidemiology. … In short, this book gives a good basis in the theory behind epidemiology and I highly recommend it as a first step into this discipline." (Faisel Yunus, Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 35 (3), 2008)
"The book provides a unified comprehensive coverage of the design, outcome and analysis issues of epidemiological studies. … an excellent guide for ‘the public health student or professional, clinician, health journalist and anyone … interested in learning what epidemiology is all about…’. Many learners … will find this book refreshingly easy to understand. … educators will also find it a useful resource for any student whooften finds epidemiological concepts bewildering. … a worthwhile purchase and a must-have for any health sciences library." (Lehana Thabane, International Statistical Review, Vol. 75 (1), 2007)

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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 age or life experience that is interested in learning what epidemiology is all about in a convenient, easy to understand format with timely, real-world health examples.
David G. Kleinbaum is a Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA, and an internationally recognized expert in teaching biostatistical and epidemiological concepts and methods at all levels. He is the author or co-author of several widely acclaimed textbooks including ActivEpi CD ROM, The ActivEpi Companion Textbook, Applied Regression Analysis and Other Multivariable Methods, Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods, Logistic Regression-A Self-Learning Text, and Survival Analysis-A Self-Learning Text. Dr. Kleinbaum has more than 25 years of experience teaching over 100 short courses on statistical and epidemiologic methods to a variety of international audiences, and has published widely in both the methodological and applied public health literature. He is also an experienced and sought-after consultant, and is presently an ad-hoc consultant to research staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In December 2005, Dr. Kleinbaum was the first recipient of the Association of Schools of Public Health Pfizer Award for Career Teaching Excellence. In November 2006, he also received the American Public Health Association's 2006 award for Career Teaching Excellence in Epidemiology.
Dr. Kevin M. Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. He has worked in the area of epidemiology and public health for over 30 years and has over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has published chapters in several books. He is one of the developers of Epi Info, a freely downloadable web-based software package for the analysis of epidemiologic data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is also the co-author of OpenEpi, a freely downloadable web-based calculator for epidemiologic data (www.OpenEpi.com).
Ms. Nancy Barker is a statistical consultant who formerly worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is an Instructor in the Career MPH at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University where she teaches a distance learning course on basic epidemiology that uses ActivEpi CD and ActivEpi Companion Text as the course textbooks.
More detailed information about ActivEpi CD, ActivEpi Companion Text, and Pocket Guide to Epidemiology can be found on Professor Kleinbaum’s website http://www.activepi.com

Caracteristici

In the nearly three years since the publication of the ActivEpi companion text, the authors received several suggestions to produce an abbreviated version that narrows the discussion to the most "essential" principles and methods Contains less than half as many pages as the ActivEpi Companion Text and is a stand-alone introductory text on the basic principles and concepts of epidemiology