51.1.1 Specifics of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Most textbooks dealing with the epidemiology of infectious diseases address the epidemiological features (also named biology) of specific infectious diseases. In this chapter, the focus is placed on the concepts and methods more specific to the general...
Paediatric oncology textbooks often open with a chapter on epidemiology, usually rather brief and tending to reflect the particular interests of the authors or editors. Numerous review articles have dealt with a few putative risk factors, but until now there has been no comprehensive review of the...
[1]. Since then, the use of increasingly sophisticated biological-based markers of exposure, intermediate effect, outcome, and susceptibility has become standard practice incancer epidemiology. The maturity of the field is reflected by the increasing number of textbooks, journals, academic programs, ...
51.1.1 Specifics of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Most textbooks dealing with the epidemiology of infectious diseases address the epidemiological features (also named biology) of specific infectious diseases. In this chapter, the focus is placed on the concepts and methods more specific to the general...
The present volume illustrates the complexity of the discipline and its many links with other specialties, particularly with genetics. It makes it very clear that the epidemiology of rheumatic diseases deserves more than a sentence or a section at the beginning of each chapter in textbooks. ...
These measures and the investigative approaches to estimating them are summarized very briefly here; more elaborate treatment of the epidemiologic and statistical principles underlying them can be found in any of several textbooks on epidemiology as noted in Sect. 1. 9.2.1 Cohort Studies The search ...