Publisher's Synopsis
This is an introduction to the epidemiology of diseases and is intended primarily for students of community and preventative medicine, but it should also be of interest to clinicians and other health professionals and to students of nursing, health visiting, health education and dentistry.;The work contains an outline of the roles of epidemiology, the methods used in examining the causes of disease and the strategies used in prevention. Each chapter defines a disease or group of related diseases, giving methods of study, major epidemiological findings and applications of these to prevention, early detection, and identifying risk groups. Reference is also made to evaluation, and preventative and therapeutic measures and also included are several conditions usually regarded as "tropical disease" to encourage a global view of medicine.
