{"product_id":"statistics-in-public-health","title":"Statistics in Public Health","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublic health strives to improve the health of human populations, and prevent disease, disability, and death. Statistics--the science of finding underlying patterns by analyzing variability and errors in collected data--is essential to the understanding of disease patterns in human populations. Other quantitative methods, such as economics, decision theory, and mathematics, now constitute integral parts of the scientific basis for priority-setting and evaluation in\n\u003cbr\u003epublic health. This book provides a broad conceptual treatment of the statistical issues underlying core public health functions: outbreak investigations, policy development, economic and\n\u003cbr\u003eprogram evaluation, managed care, and program operations. The theoretical analysis is illustrated with examples from public health practice. For readers interested in a more detailed treatment, there are extensive references to specialized publications. The authors present a series of quantitative approaches that significantly help public health professionals solve the problems they confront in their day-to-day work. Unlike traditional how-to books in statistics, this volume starts\n\u003cbr\u003ewith an overview of the range of problems encountered in public health practice, and then presents methods for facilitating decision making. Statistics in Public Health: Quantitative Approaches to\n\u003cbr\u003ePublic Health Problems will serve as a comprehensive desk reference for public health practitioners and as a teaching text for students of public health.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156629549294,"sku":"9780195114980","price":139.64,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/statistics-in-public-health","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}