Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care, Fifth Edition

Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care, Fifth Edition

Greenberg, Raymond; Boring, John; Daniels, Stephen; Flanders, W.; Eley, John

McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

07/2015

288

Mole

Inglês

9780071822725

15 a 20 dias

433

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Section I: Population Health



Chapter 1: Populations

a. Community

b. Region

c. Country

d. Global

e. Special populations



Chapter 2: Metrics

a. Prevalence

b. Incidence rate

c. Mortality rate

d. Infant mortality

e. Life expectancy

f. Years of potential life lost

g. Disability-adjusted life years



Chapter 3: Patterns of Occurrence

a. Age

b. Race/ethnicity

c. Gender

d. Geographic

e. Temporal



Chapter 4: Global Burden of Disease

a. Study design and goals

b. Mortality patterns

c. Healthy life expectancy

d. Disability-adjusted life years

e. Risk factors



Chapter 5: Social Determinants of Health

a. Definition

b. Whitehall Study

c. Education

d. Income

e. Housing

f. Food security

g. Physical and social environment





Chapter 6: Health Disparities

a. Health Inequities

b. Social determinants

c. Culture

d. Discrimination

e. Access to care

f. Quality of care





Section II. Collecting Evidence for Medical Practice



Chapter 7: Clinical trials

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Randomization

d. Blinding

e. Analysis

f. Sample size

g. Limitations



Chapter 8: Cohort studies

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Exposure assessment

d. Analysis

e. Limitations



Chapter 9: Case-control studies

a. Design

b. Subject selection

c. Matching

d. Exposure assessment

e. Analysis

f. Limitations



Chapter 10: Diagnostic tests

a. Sensitivity and specificity

b. Positive and negative predictive value

c. Likelihood ratios

d. ROC Curves

e. Limitations









Section III. Assessing Evidence for Medical Practice



Chapter 11: Comparative effectiveness

a. Definition

b. Objectives

c. Approaches

d. Systematic reviews

e. PICOTS principles



Chapter 12: Planning a review

a. Selecting a topic

b. Key informants

c. Analytic framework



Chapter 13: Finding evidence

a. Study eligibility

b. Types of studies

c. Grey literature

d. Possible bias

e. Search process

f. Extracting data

g. Reporting methods



Chapter 14: Assessing the evidence

a. Data extraction

b. Study quality

c. Study applicability

d. Summary table

e. Evidence Maps



Chapter 15: Quantitative synthesis

a. Summary measures

b. Heterogeneous results

c. Subgroup analysis

d. Grading strength of evidence

e. Reporting results





Section IV: Translating Evidence into Medical Practice
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population-based science, statistics in medicine, population-based medicine, Biostatistics, patterns of disease, disease patterns, disease risk factors, risk factors in health, epidemiologic concepts, patterns of disease occurrence, incidence rates in clinical medicine, incidence rates in health, evaluating clinical evidence, summarizing clinical evidence, epidemiology course review, biostatistics clinical research