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Am J Epidemiol 2002; 156:188-190.
Copyright © 2002 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

BOOK REVIEWS

Epidemiology: An Introduction

David Schottenfeld

Department of Epidemiology University of Michigan School of Public Health Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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By Kenneth J. RothmanISBN 0–19–513553–9 (cloth), ISBN 0–19–513554–7 (paper) Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, New York (Telephone: 212–726–6000, e-mail: www.oup.com), 2002, 223 pp., $57.50 (cloth), $29.95 (paper)

As stated in the preface, the teaching objective of this textbook is to provide a "simple overview of the concepts that are the underpinnings of epidemiology," in which "the emphasis is not on statistics, formulas, or computation, but on epidemiologic principles and concepts." The conceptual scope of the book is comprehensive and sufficiently profound to provide a solid foundation for instruction in causal inference, study design, and data analysis and interpretation.

The book begins with examples of confounding by age distribution that distort comparisons of crude death rates between countries with markedly disparate socioeconomic resources or risks of death between smokers and nonsmokers. At the conclusion of this chapter, the author provides a series of questions for discussion that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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