Epidemiological Research

by Miettinen, O. S.

• ISBN13: 9789400711709
• ISBN10: 9400711700
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-04
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

An alternative to A Dictionary of Epidemiology by the International Epidemiological Association, drawing from inputs by numerous contributors, this book is by a single author #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; someone who, after medical school, has devoted half-a-century of full-time effort to ever better understand both clinical and community medicine and the research that is needed to produce the scientific knowledge-base of these.#xC2;#xA0; #xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0; This book is organized so as to address in separate sections first the preparatory topics of medicine (clinical and epidemiological), science in general, and statistics (mathematical); then topics of epidemiological research proper; and, finally, topics of #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;meta-epidemiological#xE2;#xAC;" clinical research.#xC2;#xA0; In those two main sections, a further grouping is based on the distraction between objects and methods of study.#xC2;#xA0; In this framework, the particular topics are addressed both descriptively and quasi-prescriptively, commonly with a number of explicatory annotations.#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0; Like the I.E.A. Dictionary, this book is intended to serve and a handbook for whomever is, in whatever way, concerned with epidemiological or #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;meta-epidemiological#xE2;#xAC;" clinical research.#xC2;#xA0; But besides, it is intended to serve as a textbook for the students in introductory courses on #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;epidemiological#xE2;#xAC;" research #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; to which end there is a suggested hierarchy of the concepts that might reasonably be covered.#xC2;#xA0;#xC2;#xA0;

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Medicine, Science, and Statistics
Term and concepts	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Mini-dictionary	p. 4
Terms and Concepts of Science	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Mini-dictionary	p. 31
Terms and Concepts of Statistics	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
Mini-dictionary	p. 48
Epidemiololgical Research Proper
Introduction	p. 59
Introductory Terms and Concepts	p. 73
Terms and Concepts of Objects of Study	p. 83
Terms and Concepts of Methods of Study	p. 97
Meta-Epidemiological Clinical Research
Introduction	p. 137
Introductory Terms and Concepts	p. 139
Terms and Concepts of Objects of Study	p. 145
Terms and Concepts of Methods of Study	p. 149
References	p. 161
Index	p. 165
Hierarchy Of Concepts	p. 171
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