Beschreibung:
Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services
Pedagogic structure
Preface.- Methods. Introduction.- Measurement of Epidemiological Data.- Data Sources with Implications for Health Services Delivery.- Identifying and Interpreting Risk through Epidemiological Methods.- Analytic Approaches: Familiar Ones and New Techniques.- Epidemiologic Research.- Populations and Population Subgroups: Demographic Trends, Risk Factors, and Health.- Applications. Epidemiology and Information Management.- Quality and Safety: The Epidemiological Basis.- Infection Control.- Environment.- Health Promotion/Prevention Services/Risk Reduction.- Screening/Early Detection/Surveillance.- Medical Care Epidemiology.- Epidemiology and Health Care Policy.- Ethics, Epidemiology, and the Delivery of Health Care.- Glossary.- Answers to selected cases.