Statistics in Public Health: Quantitative Approaches to Public Health Problems Book

Public health deals with the prevention of disease, disability, and death in human populations. Statistics, the science of finding underlying patterns by analyzing variability and errors in collected data, is essential to understanding problems of disease in human populations because of widespread variation in social systems and biology. Other quantitative methods (e.g., economics, decision theory, deterministic mathematics) now form integral parts of the scientific basis of priority-setting and evaluation in public health. This book gives broad conceptual treatment of the statistical issues underlying core public health functions: outbreak investigations, policy development, economic and program evaluation, managed care, and program operations. It will serve as a desk reference for public health practitioners and as a text for students of public health.Read More