Successfully tested in the authors' courses at Boston University and Harvard University, this text combines
theory and practice in presenting traditional and new epidemiologic concepts. Broad in scope, the text opens with
five chapters covering the basic epidemiologic concepts and data sources. A major emphasis is placed on study design,
with separate chapters devoted to each of the three main analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and case-control
studies.
Full chapters on bias, confounding, and random error, including the role of statistics in epidemiology, ensure
that students are well-equipped with the necessary information to interpret the results of epidemiologic studies.
An entire chapter is also devoted to the concept of effect measure modification, an often-neglected topic in introductory
textbooks. Up-to-date examples from the epidemiologic literature on diseases of public health importance are provided
throughout the book.
The second edition has been thoroughly revised with up-to-date examples and data from epidemiologic literature
and features over 100 new study questions.