An Introduction to Epidemiology in Medicine Nicholas Wald Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine Bart's and The London School of Medicine Charterhouse Square, London, UK £9.95,  978-1-85315-584-0,  88pp,  Paperback,  January 2004

CAB International 2004
This book serves as a concise introduction to epidemiology for medical students, as well as a refresher text for health care professionals.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, October 2004
With its focus on the basics, its perfect balance of information and its readability The Epidemiological Approach is a book that no medical student should be without.

Highly Commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Book Competition 2004

This book is intended as an introduction to epidemiology for medical students, as well as a refresher textbook for doctors and other healthcare professionals at any stage of their careers. This brief simple text offers an insight into Epidemiology and an awareness of its scope and utility, and serves as a useful introduction to the subject.

In its previous three editions, the book has proved popular with students at Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals in London, UK. Now published for the first time by RSM Press, this fourth edition is available to all students in the UK and overseas. It contains a new section on cancer screening, provides updated information on AIDS in the UK, and revises some of the text on observational studies. Special reference is made to the expected epidemic of mesothelioma, showing how epidemiology can predict future disease trends. The glossary has also been revised.

Contents:
Introduction
A cause of a disease
Epidemiological enquiry
Epidemiological studies
Intervention studies
Ethical issues
Confidence intervals and p-values
Prevention
Primary prevention
Screening
Patterns of births, mortality and morbidity
Populations of England and Wales
Birth rate and induced abortion rate
Perinatal and infant mortality
Mortality
Differences in mortality between the sexes
Elderly people
Social and ethnic groups
Regional variation in mortality
Morbidity
The developing world

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