Foundations of Epidemiology

Foundations of Epidemiology has been widely used as an introductory text in a broad range of epidemiology courses. Minimal familiarity with statistics is assumed in the book. The text gives lucid, well-organized explanations of basic epidemiologic concepts such as rates and ratios, age-adjustment, incubation periods, investigation of an outbreak, time-place-and person, agent-host-environment, surveillance, screening, sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, odds ratios, and case-control study design. Epidemiologists, epidemiology students.