ABSTRACT

This book provides practical knowledge to clinicians and biomedical researchers using biological and biochemical specimen/samples in order to understand health and disease processes at cellular, clinical, and population levels. Concepts and techniques provided will help researchers design and conduct studies, then translate data from bench to clinics in attempt to improve the health of patients and populations. This book presents the extreme complexity of epidemiologic research in a concise manner that will address the issue of confounders, thus allowing for more valid inferences and yielding results that are more reliable and accurate.

section I|2 pages

Basic research design principles and study inference

chapter 3|22 pages

Epidemiologic design challenges

Confounding and effect measure modifier

chapter 4|20 pages

Epidemiologic case ascertainment

Disease screening and diagnosis

section II|2 pages

Epidemiologic concepts and methods

chapter 6|12 pages

Epidemiologic study designs

Overview

chapter 7|10 pages

Ecologic studies

Design, conduct, and interpretation

chapter 8|20 pages

Case-control studies

Design, conduct, and interpretation

chapter 9|12 pages

Cross-sectional studies

Design, conduct, and interpretation

chapter 10|30 pages

Cohort studies

Design, conduct, and interpretation

chapter 11|22 pages

Clinical trials (human experimental designs)

section III|2 pages

Perspectives, challenges, and future of epidemiology

chapter 14|12 pages

Health and healthcare policies

Role of epidemiology