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Epidemiology A Very Short Introduction
Preface
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1 What is epidemiology?
2 Measuring health and disease
3 Searching for the causes of disease
4 Establishing the causes of a disease
5 Testing how to control a disease
6 Following up people's health
7 Investigating people's past experiences
8 Mapping health and disease
9 From epidemiology to medicine, prevention, and public health 10 Epidemiology between ethics and politics
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Further reading