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Description: Environmental epidemiology plays a critical role in public health, providing a scientific approach to understanding and describing the relationship between human health and the physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial factors in the environment—information that is vitally important to public health planning, policy, and prevention strategies.
Environmental Epidemiology: Principles and Methods offers a current and comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts used in the field. With a unique emphasis on research methods, this text provides students and practitioners in public health with the tools needed for investigating environmentally-related public health problems. Unlike other texts on the subject, this text presents environmental epidemiology in the context of global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, and deforestation. It also covers the traditional topics of radiation and air, soil, and water pollution.
Key features:
• Chapter topics represent fundamental concepts, research methods, and application areas in environmental epidemiology.
• Chapters are divided into concise sections, each with several practical examples.
• Learning objectives and study questions with descriptive answers are provided in each chapter.
• Tables and figures summarize and clarify important concepts and information; key words are bolded in the text and defined.
• The text is accompanied by a TestBank, Instructor’s Manual, and PowerPoint slides available online.
Contents: Section I: Concepts and Methods in Environmental Epidemiology • Introduction to Environmental Epidemiology • Basic Elements of Research, Exposure and Outcome Assessment • Monitoring Environmental Health • Epidemiologic Study Designs • Statistical Modeling and Inference • Casual Inference.
Section II: Environmental Epidemiology According to Person, Place and Time • Disease Clusters • Mapping and Geographic Information Systems • Time Series.
Section III: Applications of Environmental Epidemiology • Indoor and Ambient Air Quality and Health • Soil and Food Contaminants and Health • Water and Health • Radiation and Health • Climate Change and Health
Appendix I: Measures and Data Sources for Environmental Public Health Indicators • Appendix II: Potential Sources of Data and Information for Environmental Public Health Indicators • Appendix III: Selected Statistical Techniques and Tests • Appendix IV: Exposure History Questionnaire • Appendix V: Answers to Odd- Numbered Chapter Questions • Glossary • IndexISBN - 9789380108100
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Pages : 494
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