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Contents
- 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