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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on April 24, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(11):1407-1408; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp093
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2009. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: BOOK REVIEW OF "CONCEPTS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY: INTEGRATING THE IDEAS, THEORIES, PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 2ND EDITION"

Raj S. Bhopal

Public Health Sciences Section, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH89AG, United Kingdom

(e-mail: raj.bhopal@ed.ac.uk)

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Dr. Samet's thoughtful observations (1) about my book (2) will prove useful for a third edition. Dr. Samet emphasizes that the sequencing of Concepts of Epidemiology is unusual but the reasoning unstated. My approach was to

  1. make each chapter self-contained and to use cross-links to related material, so students and teachers can adopt various sequences.
  2. introduce all the basic concepts before turning . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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