Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice

Description

Infectious disease epidemiology is the application of methods and approaches used to understand the distribution and determinants of health and disease to the study of infections. This book provides a comprehensive and succinct overview of the subject and covers related specialist areas needed to understand the epidemiology of infections. The book is organized in such a way that a reader can sequentially read chapters or dip in to particular concepts. It is a practical and concise guide which not only provides basic information and concepts used in epidemiology, but also the remarkable advances in this discipline as a result of progress in molecular biology, genomics, statistics and computing. In this book, some chapters with basic epidemiologic information such as outbreak investigations, study design, clinical trials, clinical epidemiology and basic statistical methods for application in epidemiology have been included. This is a book which is easy to read and set out in comprehensive but clear and precise scientific language. This book may serve to students and epidemiologists as a reference guide which provides basic and new concepts in infectious epidemiology.