Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts

This book is by a single author someone who, after medical school, has devoted half-a-century of full-time effort to ever better understand both clinical and community medicine and the research that is needed toproduce the scientific knowledge-base of these. The book is organized so as to address in [...]
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This book is by a single author someone who, after medical school, has devoted half-a-century of full-time effort to ever better understand both clinical and community medicine and the research that is needed toproduce the scientific knowledge-base of these. 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 andmethods 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 and a handbook forwhomever is, in whatever way, concerned with epidemiological or meta-epidemiological clinical research. But besides, it is intended to serve as a textbook for the students in introductory courses on epidemiological research to which end there is a suggested hierarchy of the concepts that might reasonably be covered.