For graduate and undergraduate courses, Epidemiology for Public Health Practice offers comprehensive coverage of all the major topics in introductory epidemiology. It covers the heart of epidemiology from study designs to descriptive epidemiology to quantitative measures in a reader-friendly format that will appeal to all beginning students of health-related disciplines. Students develop skills which will be useful in subsequent course work and in the working world through an emphasis on real-world applications of epidemiology. Significantly updated, the new Sixth Edition offers: New chapter on epidemiology and policy, emphasises health disparities, genetic epidemiology, and current epidemics (e.g., the opioid epidemic, cannabis misuse, and gun violence) Coverage of data acquisition (big data), wearable technology for collecting health data, climate change, and more. Updated tables and figures throughout the text, including chapters on psychosocial epidemiology, occupational and environmental health, and career options Editorial Reviews About the Author Dr. Robert H. Friis earned his PhD from Columbia University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. His undergraduate degree was in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. The researcher has been teaching and researching epidemiology for more than three decades. The former professor was also an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University School of Public Health, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College. He then served as the Director of the Field Epidemiology Unit of Orange County Public Health (California). At the University of California, Irvine, he taught medicine, neurology, and social ecology. epidemiology for public health practice 6th edition of Health Science and Chair of the department at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches introductory epidemiology and biostatistics. More than 50 professional and scientific articles have been published by him, and he has been involved in a number of epidemiological research projects. In addition, he is a member of the Societies for Epidemiologic Research and the American Public Health Association's epidemiology section. A Clinical Professor of Community and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, he also teaches courses related to environmental health. On Video Jug, the author is seen as a leading expert in epidemiology. A postdoctoral expert in genetic epidemiology, Thomas A. Sellers, PhD, MPH, earned a PhD in epidemiology from Tulane University. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Community Nutrition at the University of California at Davis. While on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, he taught non-majors Introduction to Epidemiology. The University of South Florida's H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute has named him Associate Center Director. More than 150 articles, letters, and book chapters have been published by Dr. Sellers with a primary focus on cancer etiology. For almost 15 years, he has received continuous funding for his research from the National Cancer Institute. There is a wide range and diversity of his experience evident in the study examples he presents.
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