College of Natural and Health Sciences

From authors Friis and Sellers comes the Fourth Edition of this best-selling introduction to epidemiology: Epidemiology for Public Health Practice.

The book offers a new approach to understanding and identifying the causes of disease - and with it, how to prevent disease and improve human health. It is an introductory text for the next generation of students in medicine and public health.

Epidemiology of Congenital Hypothyroidism

Contributions from leading authorities in the field, this text explores the major health challenges and conditions specifically affecting women.

This book introduces the epidemiological principles and methods that are increasingly important in the practice of medicine and public health. With minimum use of technical language it fully explains terminology, concepts, and techniques associated with traditional and modern epidemiology. Topics include disease causality, epidemiologic measures, descriptive epidemiology, study design, clinical and primary prevention trials, observational cohort studies, case-control studies, and the consideration of random and systematic error in studies of causal factors.