American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 155, No. 6 : 580-581
Copyright © 2002 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services: Methods and Applications, Second Edition
School of Public Health University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Epidemiologists generally classify themselves into two groups: the common and conventional, or classical, group that studies the occurrence of disease and its risk factors; and the second group, less common and less conventional, which applies epidemiologic knowledge to the workings of health services. This book is concerned with the latter area, in which the authors illustrate the application of epidemiology to issues of health care, with special reference to the population perspective.
Health care services can be made to be
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