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The science of epidemiology and the methods needed for public health assessments: a review of epidemiology textbooks

OBJECTIVES: Epidemiology is often described as ‘the science of public health’. Here we aim to assess the extent that epidemiological methods, as covered in contemporary standard textbooks, provide tools that can assess the relative magnitude of public health problems and can be used to help rank and...

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Autores principales: Gouda, Hebe N, Powles, John W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24507570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-139