Table of Contents

1: What is epidemiology?
2: Measuring health and disease
3: Searching for the causes of diseases
4: Establishing the causes of a disease
5: Testing how to control a disease
6: Following-up people's health
7: Enquiring back into people's lives
8: Mapping health and disease
9: From epidemiology to medicine, prevention, and public health
10: Epidemiology between ethics and politics

About the Author

Rodolfo Saracci is Honorary Director of research in epidemiology with the Italian National Research Council and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Arhus, Denmark. He holds postgraduate diplomas in internal medicine and medical statistics. He has worked at the World Health Organisation (WHO) for nearly thirty years and has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers.