流行病學（留學生與雙語教學用）（英文版）

《流行病學（留學生與雙語教學用）（英文版）》是2014年清華大學出版社出版的圖書，作者是汪培山。

基本介紹

• 書名：流行病學(留學生與雙語教學用)（英文版）
• 作者：汪培山
• ISBN：9787302375111
• 定價：49.8元
• 出版社：清華大學出版社
• 出版時間：2014-11-25

內容簡介

本教材系統地介紹了流行病學的基本原理和方法，內容簡明易懂，每章後面附有重要專業辭彙和部分練習題，適合初學流行病學的臨床醫學專業的留學生和本科生雙語教學作為入門教材，也可以作為其他醫學相關專業，如護理學、口腔醫學、藥學、公共衛生服務等專業的學生學習流行病學的教材。本教材也可以供衛生專業工作人員學習和套用流行病學參考。

圖書序言

The main goal of public health is to prevent and control disease in human populations. To reach this goal, we attempt to understand the nature of diseases, explore the causes of diseases, take action (public health programs) and evaluate the effectiveness of the actions. Epidemiology plays a crucial role in realizing this goal and deciding which public health programs to develop as well as in evaluating those programs.

In recent decades, it appears that epidemiology has increasingly become a very important approach, not only for public health but also for clinical medicine and other areas of medical research and practice. Advances in computer design and availability and the development of advanced statistical methods and readily accessible powerful software have made it feasible to manage and statistically analyze very large databases. Epidemiological techniques have been applied to many areas of biomedical research and as a result, quite a few branches of epidemiology have emerged. Today, you might find epidemiologists who specialize in chronic disease or infectious disease epidemiology or in genetic epidemiology or in molecular epidemiology or in pharmacoepidemiology or nutritional epidemiology, to name only a few of the specialties.

The aim of this book is to provide an overview of principles of epidemiology for students of clinical medicine. It is also usable for the students of other health professions such as nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, public health service etc. It also can be used as the reference book for other health professionals. For medical students, this book assumes that they have successfully finished a short course of medical statistics.

In this textbook, most of the chapters in Part one are concentrated on the basic principles concepts and methodology of epidemiology (first 10 chapters). The remaining chapters in the second part consist of some applications of epidemiology. These may be selected by instructor for lecture or for used by students as selfreadings.

It is important to note that this textbook just serves as an introduction of epidemiology. Because of the obvious constraints of any single textbook, it does not comprise an exhaustive answer to many questions in epidemiology. I would appreciate any suggestions on what and how the contents of this book can be improved.

Wang Peishan

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

School of Public Health

Tianjin Medical University

Tianjin, China

October 2014

圖書目錄

Part OneFundamental Epidemiology

Chapter 1Introduction

1. What is epidemiology?

2. Brief history of epidemiology

3. An overview of methods of epidemiologic studies

4. Goals of epidemiology

5. Natural history of disease

6. Epidemiology and three levels prevention

7. Epidemiology and clinical medicine

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 2Measures in Epidemiology and Sources of Data

1. Introduction to measures in epidemiology

2. Measures of disease occurrence

3. Other descriptive population health measures

4. Sources of data

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 3Communicable Diseases

1. What is a communicable disease?

2. Some key concepts of communicable diseases

3. Approaches to the control of communicable disease

4. Infectious disease process

5.The descriptive epidemiology of communicable disease

6. Public health surveillance

7. Epidemic or outbreak investigation

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 4Survey and Crosssectional Studies

1. Introduction

2. Steps in designing and conducting a survey

3. Sampling

4. Data gathering approaches

5. Biases in health surveys

6. Advantages and pitfalls associated with crosssectional studies

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 5Cohort Studies

1. What is a cohort study

2. Design of cohort study

3. Cohort selection

4. Data collection

5. Analysis and result interpretation

6. Sample size consideration for a cohort study

7. Potential biases in cohort studies

8. Advantages and disadvantages of a cohort study

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 6Casecontrol Studies

1. What is casecontrol study?

2. Design of casecontrol study

3. Data analysis

4. Biases in casecontrol study

5. Sample size consideration

6. Advantage and problems of casecontrol study

7. Nested casecontrol study: brief introduction

8. Comparison of characteristics of casecontrol study and cohort study

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 7Experimental Studies

1. Introduction

2. Example of clinical trials

3. Study designs for randomized controlled trial

4. Sample size consideration

5. Analysis and result interpretation

6. Advantages and disadvantages of experimental studies and compliance

7. Ethical aspects of experimentation with human subjects

8. Assessing the quality of a trial

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 8Association and Causation

1. Concept of cause in epidemiology

2. Association and causal association

3. Evaluating causal association

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 9Bias and Confounding

1. Introduction

2. Overview of bias

3. Impact of bias

4. Confounding

Summary

Study Questions

References

Chapter 10Screening and Early Detection

1. Introduction to screening and early detection

2. Criteria for establishing a screening program

3. Population screening tools

4. Validity, reliability and error

5. Evaluation of screening programs

Summary

Study Questions

References

Part TwoApplications of Epidemiology

Chapter 11Application of Epidemiology in Clinical Practice

1. Prognosis

2. Clinical decision analysis

3. Evidencebased medicine

References

Chapter 12Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology

1. Definitions and distinction

2. Study methods

References

Chapter 13Application of Epidemiology on Public Health Service

1. Public health and public health operations

2. Epidemiological model of the delivery of health care services

3. Epidemiology and the public policy process

4. Translational research and translational epidemiology

References

Chapter 14Descriptive Epidemiology in Cancer: Measures of the

Cancer Burden

1. Cancer incidence and prevalence

2. Cancer mortality

3. Survival rates

4. Temporal trends

5. Geographic variation of cancer

References