cover image - Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780323673594
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 03-05-2020
Page Count: 464
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $50.99

Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition

by Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH, Dorothea Wild, MD, MPH, Dr. Med, Heidi D. Nelson, MD, MPH, MACP and David L. Katz, MD, MPH

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cover image - Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780323673594
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 03-05-2020
Page Count: 464
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $50.99
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    • Focuses on clinical problem solving and decision making using epidemiologic concepts and examples.
    • Contains more clinical cases throughout, including global examples and dentistry cases.
    • Offers expanded coverage of the impact of big data and precision medicine.
    • Includes a question bank for self-assessment and board prep—for USMLE as well as the three specialties certified by ABPM: Occupational Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, and General and Preventive Medicine.
    • Features quick-reference boxes that showcase key concepts and calculations, and dynamic illustrations that facilitate learning using a highly visual approach.
    • Provides access to 300 multiple-choice chapter review questions and answers, a comprehensive exam, chapter overviews, a One Health chapter supplement, and more online at Student Consult.
    • Aligns content to board blueprints for the USMLE, and is recommended by the American Board of Preventive Medicine as a top review source for its core specialty examination.
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  • Section 1 – Epidemiology
    1. Basic Epidemiologic Concepts and Principles
    2. Epidemiological Data Measurements
    3. Epidemiologic Surveillance and Epidemic Outbreak Investigation
    4. The Study of Risk Factors and Causation
    5. Common Research Designs and Issues in Epidemiology
    6. Assessment of Risk and Benefit in Epidemiologic Studies
    7. Understanding the Quality of Medical Data

    Section 2 – Biostatistics
    8. Describing Variation and Distribution of Data
    9. Testing Hypotheses
    10. Analyzing Relationships between Two Variables
    11. Analyzing Relationships Between Multiple Variables
    12. Using Statistics to Design Studies: Sample Size Calculation, Randomization, and Controlling for Multiple Hypotheses
    13. Using Statistics to Answer Clinical Questions: Meta-analysis, Bayes Theorem and Predictive Values of Tests, and Decision Analysis
    Section 3 – Preventive Medicine
    14. Introduction to Preventive Medicine
    15. Methods of Primary Prevention: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
    16. Principles and Practice of Secondary Prevention
    17. Methods of Tertiary Prevention
    18. Developing Recommendations for Clinical Preventive Services

    19. Chronic Disease Prevention
    20. Prevention of Infectious Diseases
    21. Prevention of Mental Health and Behavior Problems
    22. Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
    23. Injury Prevention
    Section 4 – Public Health
    24. Introduction to Public Health
    25. The US Public Health System: Structure and Function

    26. Improving Public Health in Communities
    27. Disaster Epidemiology and Surveillance
    28. Health Services Organization, Financing, and Quality Improvement
    29. Health Care Organization, Policy, and Financing
    30. Integrating Efforts for Clinical Care, Research, and Public Health Action – One Science, One Planet, One Health

  • Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Dorothea Wild, MD, MPH, Dr. Med, Associate Director, Combined Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Griffin Hospital, Derby, CT, Heidi D. Nelson, MD, MPH, MACP, Oregon Health& Science University, United States and David L. Katz, MD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Director, Yale-Griffin Preventive Research Center, Derby, CT
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