Epidemiology for the Health Sciences: A Primer on Epidemiologic Concepts and Their Uses

By Donald F. Austin and S. Benson Werner, both of the University of California, Berkeley, California. This manual is aimed at students in all the health sciences to provide an easy and rapid understanding of epidemiologic concepts not possible with standard textbooks. Selected topics include: distinctions between incidence and prevalence, the determination of such risk factors as age or sex; the distinctions between associated and causal relationships of risk factors to disease; and the uses of epidemic curves, graphs and other pictorial representations in demonstrating disease patterns. A glossary of frequently used epidemiologic terms is among the special features provided.