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An Introduction to Epidemiology

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Handbook of Epidemiology

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This chapter introduces the key concepts of epidemiology and summarizes their development. It highlights major areas of this discipline that are dealt with in detail in the chapters of this handbook and describes their interrelationship. The whole research area covered by the term “epidemiology” has been systemized in different ways and from various perspectives.

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  1. Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiologic Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Achterstr. 30, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Wolfgang Ahrens

  2. Faculty of Mathematics/Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Wolfgang Ahrens & Iris Pigeot

  3. University of Paris V (retired), Großer Kamp 4, 33619, Bielefeld, Germany

    Klaus Krickeberg

  4. Department of Biometry and Data Management, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Achterstr. 30, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Iris Pigeot

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Ahrens, W., Krickeberg, K., Pigeot, I. (2014). An Introduction to Epidemiology. In: Ahrens, W., Pigeot, I. (eds) Handbook of Epidemiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09834-0_42

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