A comprehensive introduction to the role of epidemiology in veterinary medicine
This fully revised and expanded edition of Veterinary Epidemiology introduces readers to the field of veterinary epidemiology. The new edition also adds new chapters on the design of observational studies, validity in epidemiological studies, systematic reviews, and statistical modelling, to deliver more advanced material.
This updated edition begins by offering an historical perspective on the development of veterinary medicine. It then addresses the full scope of epidemiology, with chapters covering causality, disease occurrence, determinants, disease patterns, disease ecology, and much more.
Veterinary Epidemiology, Fourth Edition:
● Features updates of all chapters to provide a current resource on the subject of veterinary epidemiology
● Presents new chapters essential to the continued advancement of the field
● Includes examples from companion animal, livestock, and avian medicine, as well as aquatic animal diseases
● Focuses on the principles and concepts of epidemiology, surveillance, and diagnostic-test validation and performance
● Includes access to a companion website providing multiple choice questions
Veterinary Epidemiology is an invaluable reference for veterinary general practitioners, government veterinarians, agricultural economists, and members of other disciplines interested in animal disease. It is also essential reading for epidemiology students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
CONTENTS
1 The development of veterinary medicine
Michael Thrusfield
2 The scope of epidemiology
Michael Thrusfield
3 Causality
Michael Thrusfield
4 Describing disease occurrence
Michael Thrusfield
5 Determinants of disease
Michael Thrusfield
6 The transmission and maintenance of infection
Michael Thrusfield
7 The ecology of disease
Michael Thrusfield
8 Patterns of disease
Michael Thrusfield
9 Comparative epidemiology
Michael Thrusfield
10 The nature of data
Michael Thrusfield
11 Data collection and management
Michael Thrusfield
12 Presenting numerical data
Michael Thrusfield and Robert Christley
13 Surveys
Michael Thrusfield and Helen Brown
14 Demonstrating association
Michael Thrusfield
15 Observational studies
Michael Thrusfield
16 Design considerations for observational studies
Robert Christley and Nigel French
17 Clinical trials
Michael Thrusfield
18 Validity in epidemiological studies
Robert Christley and Nigel French
19 Systematic reviews
Annette O’Connor, Jan Sargeant and Hannah Wood
20 Diagnostic testing
Michael Thrusfield
21 Surveillance
Michael Thrusfield
22 Statistical modelling
Robert Christley and Peter J. Diggle
23 Mathematical modelling
Michael Thrusfield
24 Risk analysis
Michael Thrusfield and Louise Kelly
25 Economics and veterinary epidemiology
Keith Howe and Michael Thrusfield
26 Health schemes
Michael Thrusfield
27 The control and eradication of disease
Michael Thrusfield
Appendix I: Glossary of terms
Appendix II: Basic mathematical notation and terms
Appendix III: Some computer software
Appendix IV: Veterinary epidemiology on the Internet
Appendix V: Student’s t-distribution
Appendix VI: Multipliers used in the construction of confidence intervals based on the Normal distribution, for selected levels of confidence
Appendix VII: Values of exact 95% confidence limits for proportions
Appendix VIII: Values from the Poisson distribution for calculating 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals for observed numbers from 0 to 100
Appendix IX: The χ2 distribution
Appendix X: Technique for selecting a simple random sample
Appendix XI: Sample sizes
Appendix XII: The probability of detecting a small number of cases in a population
Appendix XIII: The probability of failure to detect cases in a population
Appendix XIV: Sample sizes required for detecting disease with probability, p1, and threshold number of positives
Appendix XV: Probabilities associated with the upper tail of the Normal distribution
Appendix XVI: Lower- and upper-tail probabilities for Wx, the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney rank-sum statistic
Appendix XVII: Critical values of T + for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test
Appendix XVIII: Values of K for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians for two independent samples
Appendix XIX: Values of K∗ for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians for two related samples
Appendix XX: Common logarithms (log10) of factorials of the integers 1–999
Appendix XXI: The correlation coefficient
Appendix XXII: The variance-ratio (F) distribution
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