Reflexões históricas ao redor do livro Epidemiologia & Saúde: Fundamentos, Métodos, Aplicações
Year: 2013
Type: editorial
Abstract: , consisting of seven parts, 63 sections, and comprising 98 collaborators, is different from all the epidemiology textbooks available in any of the languages I can read.Briefly, the seven parts of the book cover:(1) History (of the world and of Brazil) and phi-losophy (epistemology, concept of risk);(2) Methodology (measurements of occurrence of health events and principal study designs);(3) Epidemiological data analysis (regression models, multilevel, structural, and complex ap-proaches, and meta-analyses);(4) Applications of epidemiology by levels of or-ganization (molecular, genetic, clinical, environ-mental, social, and “ethno-epidemiological”);(5) Applications of epidemiology across the live course (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, ag-ing);(6) Specific health problems (infectious, respi-ratory, and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, vio-lence, addiction, mental, oral, occupational, nu-tritional, reproductive and sexual);(7) Application of epidemiology to public health, health policy and economics, and concluding with a section entitled
Source: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Author: Alfredo Morabia
Institutions: Queens College, CUNY, Columbia University
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3194155755