The thoroughly revised and updated Third Edition of the acclaimed Modern Epidemiology reflects both the conceptual development of this evolving science and the increasingly focal role that epidemiology plays in dealing with public health and medical problems. Coauthored by three leading epidemiologists, with sixteen additional contributors, this Third Edition is the most comprehensive and cohesive text on the principles and methods of epidemiologic research. The book covers a broad range of concepts and methods, such as basic measures of disease frequency and associations, study design,field methods, threats to validity, and assessing precision. It also covers advanced topics in data analysis such as Bayesian analysis, bias analysis, and hierarchical regression. Chapters examine specific areas of research such as disease surveillance, ecologic studies, social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic and molecular epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, and clinical epidemiology.
INTRODUCTION
Modern Epidemiology
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
BASIC CONCEPTS
Causation and Causal Inference
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Charles Poole, and Timothy L. Lash
Measures of Occurrence
Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman
Measures of Effect and Measures of Association
Sander Greenland, Kenneth J. Rothman, and Timothy L. Lash
Concepts of Interaction
Sander Greenland, Kenneth J. Rothman, and Timothy L. Lash
STUDY DESIGN AND CONDUCT
Types of Epidemiologic Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
Cohort Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman and Sander Greenland
Case-control Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
Validity in Epidemiologic Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
Precision and Statistics in Epidemiologic Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
Design Strategies to Improve Study Accuracy
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
Causal Diagrams
M. Maria Glymour and Sander Greenland
DATA ANALYSIS
Fundamentals of Epidemiologic Data Analysis
Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman
Introduction to Categorical Statistics
Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman
Introduction to Stratified Analysis
Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman
Applications of Stratified Analysis Methods
Sander Greenland
Analysis of Polytomous Exposures and Outcomes
Sander Greenland
Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
Sander Greenland
Bias Analysis
Sander Greenland and Timothy L. Lash
Introduction to Regression Models
Sander Greenland
Introduction to Regression Modeling
Sander Greenland
SPECIAL TOPICS
Surveillance
James W. Buehler
Using Secondary Data
Jørn Olsen
Field Methods in Epidemiology
Patricia Hartge and Jack Cahill
Ecologic Studies
Hal Morgenstern
Social Epidemiology
Jay S. Kaufman
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
C. Robert Horsburgh Jr. and Barbara E. Mahon
Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
Muin J. Khoury, Robert Millikan, and Marta Gwinn
Nutritional Epidemiology
Walter C. Willett
Environmental Epidemiology
Irva Hertz-Picciotto
Methodologic Issues in Reproductive Epidemiology
Clarice R. Weinberg and Allen J. Wilcox
Clinical Epidemiology
Noel S. Weiss
Meta-analysis
Sander Greenland and Keith O'Rourke