Epidemiology and the delivery of health care services: methods and applications

This completely revised and updated edition of an outstanding text enables students and health care systems managers to keep pace with the explosion of information currently available in the field, stressing its importance for epidemiology. It addresses the fundamental knowledge of epidemiological methods and statistics that can be applied to evolving systems, programs, technologies, and policies. Epidemiology and Delivery of Health Care Services examines the complex challenges that health care managers face in furnishing high-technology health services; services in response to environmental threats; and in managingclinical research enterprises and provides the necessary new tools for decision making in these areas. Offering insights into epidemiological applications both globally and locally, this new edition: -Incorporates an international perspective as well as the most recent data available on health trends in the U.S.-Presents new chapters on causal thinking, economics, ethics, and web resources among other topics.-Analyzes data on multinational increases in poverty and longevity.-Details the control of transmissible diseases.-Explains quality management, the formulation of public policy, and the evaluation of healthcare system performance.-And more. INDICE: Preface.- Methods. Introduction. Measurement of Epidemiological Data. Data Sources with Implications for Health Services Delivery. Identifying and Interpreting Risk through Epidemiological Methods. Analytic Approaches: Familiar Ones and New Techniques. Epidemiologic Research. Populations and Population Subgroups: Demographic Trends, Risk Factors, and Health.- Applications. Epidemiology and Information Management. Quality and Safety: The EpidemiologicalBasis. Infection Control. Environment. Health Promotion/Prevention Services/Risk Reduction. Screening/Early Detection/Surveillance. Medical Care Epidemiology. Epidemiology and Health Care Policy. Ethics, Epidemiology, and the Delivery of Health Care.- Glossary. Answers to selected cases.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-0163-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés