Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health-care Services: Methods and Applications

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(2001), "Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health-care Services: Methods and Applications", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 14 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2001.06214gae.004

Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health-care Services: Methods and Applications

Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health-care Services: Methods and Applications

Oleske, D.M. (Ed.)20012nd ed.Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersISBN 0 306 46525 6

This completely revised and updated edition 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; managing clinical research enterprises; and provides the necessary new tools for decision making in these areas. This new edition incorporates an international perspective as well as the most recent data available on health trends in the USA.