"Introduction to Epidemiology, Eighth Edition is a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to this exciting field. Designed for students with minimal training in the biomedical sciences and statistics, this full-color text emphasizes the application of the basic principles of epidemiology according to person, place, and time factors in order to solve current, often unexpected, and serious public health problems. Students will learn how to identify and describe public health problems, formulate research hypotheses, select appropriate research study designs, manage and analyze epidemiologic data, interpret results, and apply results in preventing and controlling disease and health-related events. With real-world examples in the form of case studies and news files in each chapter, Introduction to Epidemiology is an accessible, timely, and effective approach to learning epidemiology"--

Foundations of epidemiology -- Historic developments in epidemiology -- Practical disease concepts in epidemiology -- Design strategies and statistical methods in descriptive epidemiology -- Descriptive epidemiology according to person, place, and time -- General health and population indicators -- Design strategies and statistical methods in analytic epidemiology -- Experimental studies in epidemiology -- Causality -- Field epidemiology -- Chronic disease epidemiology -- Clinical epidemiology -- Case studies -- Measures of association according to types of exposure and outcome data -- Common study designs with selected measures of association and test statistics -- Summary of confidence intervals for evaluating selected hypotheses -- Classification and specialty journals in epidemiology -- Epidemiologic associations and societies -- Selected answers to chapter questions -- Glossary -- Index.