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What is Epidemiology And Health Services about?

<p>What is the relevance of epidemiology to decision-making in the health services? If our ability to launch large-scale experimental studies of health services is limited, what are some alternative approaches to study design? How can we best make use of routinely collected data from health information systems? How can we best synthesize information to make more reasonable inferences? These are some of the many questions that the authors of this volume answer in a comprehensive and lucid manner.<br> <b>Epidemiology and Health Services</b> is different from other books in the field. Many books and specialized publications have presented a comprehensive picture of epidemiologic methods, but they have not shown in a systematic way how these methods apply to health services. This book fills the gap, and goes even further by analyzing the strengths and limitations of epidemiologic methods in the context of health care delivery, and discussing approaches for making pertinent references in actual cases. Part I offers strategies for problem investigation, problem solving, and program development and evaluation. These introductory chapters also provide the necessary grounding in terminology

Author

Haroutune K. Armenian, Sam Shapiro

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195093599

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Medicine