At its core, epidemiology is concerned with changes in health and disease. The discipline requires counts and measures: of births, health disorders, and deaths,

Applies traditional epideiologic methods for determining disease etiology to the real-life applications of public health and health services research. This text

First edition published in 2002. Second edition published in 2008.

From reviews of the previous edition:'We still have much to learn if disease patterns are to be explained by taking a life course approach... this book provides

The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. From a wide range of sources, this study