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Veterinary Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

The purpose of this textbook is to provide an introductory, yet comprehensive, source of information on epidemiology for veterinary students, researchers, and practitioners. There has not been a textbook that presents analytic epidemiology as a science, basic to veterinary medicine's efforts in health management (herd health) as well as in clinical medicine. I / Basic principles 1. Epidemiologic concepts 2. Sampling methods 3. Measurement of disease frequency and production II / Studying disease in animal populations 4. Descriptive epidemiology 5. Disease causation 6. Surveys and analytic observational studies 7. Design of field trials 8. Theoretical epidemiology: systems analysis and modeling. III / Animal health economics 9. Animal health economics IV / Applied epidemiology 10. Rationale, strategies, and concepts of animal disease control 11. Monitoring disease and production 12. Field investigations Available from the Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=382 Rights for this work have been reverted to the authors by the original publisher. The authors have chosen to license this work as follows: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 In

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