{"id":109,"date":"2020-10-26T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmj-chicken.bmj.com\/covid-19\/?p=109"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:17:31","slug":"epidemiology-uninitiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmj-chicken.bmj.com\/thebmj\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiology for the uninitiated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#chapters\">Book chapters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Epidemiological information is used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent illness and as a guide to the management of patients in whom disease has already developed.<\/p>\n<p>Like the clinical findings and pathology, the epidemiology of a disease is an integral part of its basic description. The subject has its special techniques of data collection and interpretation, and its necessary jargon for technical terms. This short book aims to provide an ABC of the epidemiological approach, its terminology, and its methods. Our only assumption will be that readers already believe that epidemiological questions are worth answering. This introduction will indicate some of the distinctive characteristics of the epidemiological approach.<\/p>\n<h3>Authors of Epidemiology for the uninitiated, fourth edition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>D Coggon PHD, DM, FRCP, FFOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reader in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geoffrey Rose DM, DSC, FRCP, FFPHM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Late Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>DJP Barker, PHD, MD, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCOG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Director, Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton UK<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"chapters\"><\/a><strong>Chapters<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/1-what-epidemiology\">Chapter 1. What is epidemiology?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/2-quantifying-disease-populations\">Chapter 2. Quantifying disease in populations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/3-comparing-disease-rates\">Chapter 3. Comparing disease rates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/4-measurement-error-and-bias\">Chapter 4. Measurement error and bias<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/5-planning-and-conducting-survey\">Chapter 5. Planning and conducting a survey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/6-ecological-studies\">Chapter 6. Ecological studies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/7-longitudinal-studies\">Chapter 7. Longitudinal studies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/8-case-control-and-cross-sectional\">Chapter 8. Case-control and cross sectional studies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/9-experimental-studies\">Chapter 9. Experimental studies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/10-screening\">Chapter 10. Screening<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/11-outbreaks-disease\">Chapter 11. Outbreaks of disease<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/12-reading-epidemiological-reports\">Chapter 12. Reading epidemiological reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/about-bmj\/resources-readers\/publications\/epidemiology-uninitiated\/13-further-reading\">Chapter 13. Further reading<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book chapters Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Epidemiological information is used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent illness and as a guide to the management of patients in whom disease has already developed. 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