Overall, however, this is a book that can be thoroughly recommended. Every department of occupational epidemiology should have a copy, and those teaching the subject should consider using it as part of their teaching material. Occupational health practitioners with a more peripheral interest in epidemiology may find it useful to dip into, and it is structured in such a way that the more advanced sections can be easily identified and skipped over. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
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ISBN: This is the second edition of a textbook that has been regarded as the standard in occupational epidemiology during the last decade. The feeling I had reading this new edition is that of balance and clarity.
Recommendations are well thought out and documented. The numerous examples 92 in the whole book are instructive and provide comprehensive material for teaching. The authors have managed to keep a good balance between general issues that are also covered in other textbooks and special topics that refer to the occupational environment.
The second edition follows closely the structure of the first with the addition of a new chapter on occupational health surveillance, a substantial modification of the last chapter on special topics, and a more or less extensive update of the remaining chapters. The book can be separated into two sections. A first part chapters 2—8 on standard techniques for occupational epidemiology in exposure assessment, study design and analysis, and a second shorter part chapters 9—11 that covers more advanced topics such a dose modelling.
The first section begins with an evaluation of methods for the characterization of the workplace environment particularly focusing on chemical exposures. This chapter is more complete than the previous edition particularly concerning questionnaires.
Chapter 3 provides an overview of study design focusing on differences but stressing the connections between different designs. This chapter, similar to the next three chapters presenting the main designs could be used as standard text in the teaching of any course in epidemiology. Special topics that apply more to the area of occupational epidemiology such as proportionate mortality studies are also covered in this chapter. Chapter 4 covers comprehensively the issues of selection bias, information bias, and confounding.
The next two chapters are excellent and cover cohort and case-control studies. The chapters cover theoretical concepts, present basic statistical formulae, and also concrete advice on specific issues such as how to categorize jobs, or what to do with missing data.
The chapter on cohort studies covers extensively issues that have been discussed in the context of occupational and cancer epidemiology such as the calculation of standardized mortality ratios and analysis of time-related variables. I find this particularly important given the relatively poor exposure assessment of many studies.
The chapter on case-control studies includes a very clear presentation of theoretical issues on selection of controls and gives considerable weight on nested case-control studies. New designs are presented such as case cross-over studies that should have been applied more extensively in occupational epidemiology.
Cross-sectional and repeated measures studies are comprehensively covered in chapter 7. These studies are appropriate in several areas of occupational epidemiology and are usually poorly covered in standard epidemiology textbooks.
This second edition covers several new topics including biases in studies doing repeated measurements and how to deal with continuous variables. Occupational health surveillance is covered in a new, relatively short, chapter. This is a welcome addition since surveillance is an important topic in many countries. Exposure assessment in occupational and environmental epidemiology. Methods in observational epidemiology. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
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