Epidemiological methods in life course research

The rapid development of life course epidemiology, in parallel with new work on developmental biology and the biology of ageing, has bought innovative and ingenious methods of data collection. These require new methodological techniques for the design of observational and quasi-experimental studies...

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Tác giả khác: edited by Andrew Pickles; Barbara Maughan; Michael Wadsworth
Ngôn ngữ:Undetermined
English
Được phát hành: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2007
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Tóm tắt:The rapid development of life course epidemiology, in parallel with new work on developmental biology and the biology of ageing, has bought innovative and ingenious methods of data collection. These require new methodological techniques for the design of observational and quasi-experimental studies of life course pathways to adult health. This book describes these developments, together with arguments for improving the measurement of the social environment and its role in developing individual vulnerability or adaptation. The development of bio-bank large-scale population studies for the investigation of genetic effects is discussed, alongside the challenges this creates for the epidemiologist. The changing design of studies, increasing flow of longitudinal data, management of data, analytic challenges, timing, and both traditional and more recent methods of managing these features in the study of causality, are discussed
Mô tả vật lý:xiii, 258 p.
ill., map
25 cm
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references and index
số ISBN:0198528485
9780198528487