Epidemiological Research Terms and Concepts [Paperback]

The book is organized so as to address in separate sections first the preparatory topics of medicine (clinical and epidemiological), science in general, and statistics (mathematical); then topics of epidemiological research proper; and, finally, topics of meta-epidemiological clinical research. In those two main sections, a further grouping is based on the distraction between objects and methods of study. In this framework, the particular topics are addressed both descriptively and quasi-prescriptively, commonly with a number of explicatory annotations.

This book is intended to serve as a handbook for whomever is, in whatever way, concerned with epidemiological or meta-epidemiological clinical research. But besides this, it is also intended to serve as a textbook for students in introductory courses on epidemiological research  to which end there is a suggested hierarchy of the concepts that might reasonably be covered.

This book addresses clinical and epidemiological topics of medicine and statistics; then topics of epidemiological research and
finally,meta-epidemiological clinical research. The author offers a wealth of expertise acquired in a 50-year career in the field.

Preface.Introduction. Acknowledgements. PART I.&nbsp; MEDICINE, SCIENCE, AND STATISTICS. I  1. Terms and Concepts of Medicine. I  2. Terms and Concepts of Science. I  3. &nbsp;Terms and Concepts of Statistics. PART II. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROPER. II  1. Introduction. II  2. Introductory Terms and Concepts. II  3. Terms and Concepts of Objects of Study. II  4. Terms and Concepts of Methods of Study. PART III. META-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CLINICAL RESEARCH. III  1. Introduction. III  2. Introductory Terms and Concepts. III  3. Terms and Concepts of Objects of Study. II  4. Terms and Concepts of Methods of Study. References. Index. Hierarchy of Concepts<l39