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Teaching Epidemiology "A Guide For Teachers In Epidemiology Public Health And Clinical Medicine"

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Teaching epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. The new edition ofTeaching Epidemiology helps you to do this and, by providing world-expert teachers"" advice on how best to structure teaching, providing a unique insight into what has worked in their hands. This book will help you to tailor your own epidemiology teaching programme.

The fourth edition of this established text has been fully revised and updated, drawing on new research findings and recently developed methods including research technologies in genetic epidemiology and method development in relation to causal analysis. Analytical tools provide teachers in the field with the skills to guide students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Each chapter in Teaching Epidemiology comprises key concepts in epidemiology, subject specific methodologies, and disease specific issues, to provide expert assistance in the teaching of a wide range of epidemiology courses.
- Provides an introduction to recent experience and access to high-level expert advice.
- A comprehensive guide for young and inexperienced teachers of epidemiology. It covers general methodology as well of more specialized topics related to diseases and health determinants.
- Each chapter contains guidelines for how a course in the topic could be structured and how achievements could be evaluated. A list of key references is given for such chapters.
- All the chapters are written by leading epidemiologists in their field, often with many years of teaching experience and different levels.

CONTENTS:
Part 1: Context
1. Introducing the history of epidemiology
2. Important concepts in epidemiology
3. Study Design
4. Statistics in epidemiology
5. Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods

Part 2: Exposure-oriented Epidemiology
6. Questionnaires in epidemiology
7. Environment
8. Occupational epidemiology
9. Life course epidemiology
10. Pharmacoepidemiology
11. Nutritional epidemiology
12. Genetic epidemiology
13. Teaching molecular epidemiology
14. Social inequalities in health
15. Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom

Part 3: Outcome-oriented Epidemiology
16. Infectious disease epidemiology
17. Cancer epidemiology
18. Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology
19. Neurologic diseases
20. Reproductive epidemiology
21. Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology
22. Epidemiology of injuries
23. Dental epidemiology
24. Clinical epidemiology
25. Study of clustering and outbreaks
26. Registries and medical databases
27. Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom

Part 4: Pedagogies
28. Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology
Autores
ISBN
978-0-19-968500-4
EAN
9780199685004
Editor
Oxford University Press
Stock
NO
Idioma
Inglés
Nivel
Profesional
Formato
Encuadernado
Tapa Dura
Páginas
544
Largo
-
Ancho
-
Peso
-
Edición
Fecha de edición
26-05-2015
Año de edición
2015
Nº de ediciones
4
Colección
-
Nº de colección
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