Aschengrau & Seage's Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health

Seamlessly integrating theory and practice, the text explains key epidemiologic principles from foundational data sources to diverse study designs. It covers experimental, cohort, and case?control methods while examining issues like bias, confounding, and random error with updated statistical insights for public health.

Seamlessly blending theory and practice, Aschengrau amp Seage's Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health presents both traditional and modern epidemiological concepts in a clear and accessible way. Broad in scope, the text opens with five chapters covering the basic epidemiologic concepts and data sources. A major emphasis is placed on study design, with separate chapters devoted to each of the three main analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and case-control studies. Full chapters on bias, confounding, and random error, including the role of statistics in epidemiology, ensure that students are well-equipped with the necessary information to interpret the results of epidemiologic studies. For the 5th edition, descriptive data and statistics have been updated throughout, most significantly in Chapters 4 (Sources of Public Health Data) and 5 (Descriptive Epidemiology). The latter chapter also includes a section on the leading causes of morbidity in the U.S. with a summary of COVID- 9.