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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 3, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(11):1339-1340; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn307
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

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Epidemiology: Concepts and Methods

By William A. Oleckno

Shruti H. Mehta

Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21202

(e-mail: shmehta@jhsph.edu)

ISBN: 978-1-57766-522-9, Waveland Press, Inc., Long Grove, Illinois (Telephone: 847-634-0081, Fax: 847-634-9501, E-mail: info@waveland.com, World Wide Web: http://www.waveland.com), 2008, 649 pp., $51.95 Hardcover

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Epidemiology: Concepts and Methods represents the second and more advanced textbook by author William Oleckno. It is an introductory text intended for graduate school students taking their first and potentially only course in epidemiology. The book is divided into 5 major sections. The first section, which covers chapters 1–4 and is entitled "Basic Foundations of Epidemiology," not only touches on the historical roots and the founding fathers of epidemiology but also reviews basic concepts of disease while . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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