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Epidemiology: a tool for the assessment of risk - WHO
2001 World Health Organization (WHO). Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards and Health. Edited byLorna Fewtrell and Jamie Bartram. Published by IWA Publishing, London, UK. ISBN: 1 900222 28 07 epidemiology : a tool for theassessment of riskUrsula J. Blumenthal, Jay M. Fleisher,Steve A. Esrey and Anne PeaseyThe purpose of this chapter is to introduce and demonstrate the use of a key toolfor the assessment of risk. The word epidemiology is derived from Greek and itsliteral interpretation is studies upon people . A more usual definition, however,is the scientific study of disease patterns among populations in time and chapter introduces some of the techniques used in epidemiological studiesand illustrates their uses in the evaluation or setting of microbiologicalguidelines for recreational water, wastewater reuse and drinking INTRODUCTIONM odern epidemiological techniques developed largely as a result of outbreakinvestigations of infectious disease during the nineteenth Quality: Guidelines, Sta
Epidemiology: a tool for the assessment of risk 137 1987; Rothman and Greenland 1998). The case studies include examples of the elements described here.
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