Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care - Raymond Greenberg, Stephen Daniels, W. Flanders, John Eley, John Boring

Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care

Buch | Softcover
2015 | 5th edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Verlag)
978-1-259-25185-6 (ISBN)
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Medical Epidemiology provides readers with a complete overview of the principles and concepts of epidemiology and illustrates the contemporary relationship between population-based science and the care of patients.
Understand the role of epidemiology in clinical medicine for the best patient outcomes possible




For nearly a quarter of a century, Medical Epidemiology has been the go-to text for understanding the principles and concepts of epidemiology and the relationship between population-based science and efficient patient care. It delivers the most current information on patterns of disease occurrence and risk factors – all clearly linked to clinical practice through the use of Health Scenarios in every chapter.


This edition of Medical Epidemiology has been completely rewritten to reflect the transformative changes in the manner in which epidemiologic methods are being utilized in today’s healthcare as well as the major shifts that have occurred at the policy level.


New chapters have been added on many timely topics, including global health, social determinants of health, health inequalities, comparative effectiveness, quality of care, variations in care, and implementation science. Increased information about evaluating, summarizing, and using evidence for improved patient care and outcomes gives this edition an even greater clinical focus.

Raymond S. Greenberg, MD, PhD is President of the Medical University of South Carolina. While nationally recognized for his cancer research, Dr. Greenberg has also authored nearly 150 scientific publications. Additionally, Dr. Greenberg is an active participant on several national scientific advisory boards.

Section I: Population Health



Chapter 1: Populations

a. Community

b. Region

c. Country

d. Global

e. Special populations



Chapter 2: Metrics

a. Prevalence

b. Incidence rate

c. Mortality rate

d. Infant mortality

e. Life expectancy

f. Years of potential life lost

g. Disability-adjusted life years



Chapter 3: Patterns of Occurrence

a. Age

b. Race/ethnicity

c. Gender

d. Geographic

e. Temporal



Chapter 4: Global Burden of Disease

a. Study design and goals

b. Mortality patterns

c. Healthy life expectancy

d. Disability-adjusted life years

e. Risk factors



Chapter 5: Social Determinants of Health

a. Definition

b. Whitehall Study

c. Education

d. Income

e. Housing

f. Food security

g. Physical and social environment





Chapter 6: Health Disparities

a. Health Inequities

b. Social determinants

c. Culture

d. Discrimination

e. Access to care

f. Quality of care





Section II. Collecting Evidence for Medical Practice



Chapter 7: Clinical trials

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Randomization

d. Blinding

e. Analysis

f. Sample size

g. Limitations



Chapter 8: Cohort studies

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Exposure assessment

d. Analysis

e. Limitations



Chapter 9: Case-control studies

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Matching

d. Exposure assessment

e. Analysis

f. Limitations<
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Chapter 10: Diagnostic tests

a. Sensitivity and specificity

b. Positive and negative predictive value

c. Likelihood ratios

d. ROC Curves

e. Limitations









Section III. Assessing Evidence for Medical Practice



Chapter 11: Comparative effectiveness

a. Definition

b. Objectives

c. Approaches

d. Systematic reviews

e. PICOTS principles



Chapter 12: Planning a review

a. Selecting a topic

b. Key informants

c. Analytic framework



Chapter 13: Finding evidence

a. Study eligibility

b. Types of studies

c. Grey literature

d. Possible bias

e. Search process

f. Extracting data

g. Reporting methods



Chapter 14: Assessing the evidence

a. Data extraction

b. Study quality

c. Study applicability

d. Summary table

e. Evidence Maps



Chapter 15: Quantitative synthesis

a. Summary measures

b. Heterogeneous results

c. Subgroup analysis

d. Grading strength of evidence

e. Reporting results





Section IV: Translating Evidence into Medical Practice

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 185 x 234 mm
Gewicht 433 g
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10 1-259-25185-3 / 1259251853
ISBN-13 978-1-259-25185-6 / 9781259251856
Zustand Neuware
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