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Science General

Epidemiological Research

Terms and Concepts

by (author) O.S. Miettinen

Publisher
Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade
Initial publish date
Apr 2011
Category
General, Education & Training
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9789400711709
    Publish Date
    Apr 2011
    List Price
    $80.5

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Description

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

About the author

Contributor Notes

After medical school O.S. Miettinen devoted half-a-century of full-time effort to ever better understand both clinical and community medicine and the research that is needed to produce the scientific knowledge-base of these.