Basic and Clinical Epidemiology

Description-
This pioneer book in the area of Basic and Clinical Epidemiology in Indian sub-continent gives an introduction to principles and practice of Basic and Clinical Epidemiology in a simple and lucid manner. Book starts with factors leading to disease causation and details the interaction between Agent, Host and Environment. An introduction to the environmental and occupational epidemiology is given. The book attempts to integrate the Basic Epidemiology taught in didactic lectures with the process and of Clinical Research in Practice.
Contents-
1- Why basic and clinical Epidemiology
2- Disease Transmission
3- Immunity and Immunization
4- Public health
5- Measurements of health and disease
6- Study types in Epidemiology
7- Statistics in Epidemiology
8- Causation and its relationship to Epidemiology.
9- Clinical Epidemiology
10- Preventive Epidemiology
11- Epidemiology and health policies
12- Occupational Epidemiology
13- Environmental Epidemiology
14- Infectious disease Epidemiology
15- Evidence based medicine in clinical Epidemiology
16- Randomized clinical trials
17- Uncontrolled trials
18- Sample size calculations in studies
19- Ethics in clinical trials
20- How to evaluate a research paper
21- Process of clinical research : hypothesis to proof
22- Why do clinical trials
23- Updating knowledge in Epidemiology
24-Commonly used terms in basic and clinical Epidemiology