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Epidemiology: An Introductory Text
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Most textbooks of epidemiology have tended toward poor balance, either because they have been aimed at readers with a narrow purpose, or because the author has been intent on presenting his particularWeltanschauung. This new text by Mausner and Bahn has avoided both of these problems: it is thoroughly eclectic and has been constructed for beginners, regardless of motivation. Much of the book describes the utility of epidemiologic concepts in various practical settings: infectious disease control, etiology of chronic disease, screening, community health evaluation, and the conduct of randomized clinical trials. Each of these sections serves as a properly simplified introduction to the subject from the epidemiologic point of view. Not unexpectedly, the very eclecticism that permits an unrestricted view of epidemiology is partly responsible for the faults of the book. These are concentrated in the first two chapters, which do not provide the clear conceptual foundation necessary for that
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mack, T.
- Venue
- JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1975-09-01
- Volume
- 233
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1006
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W2090962600
- Cited by
- 179
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 7.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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