Epidemiology

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According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, epidemiology is the "branch of medical science that studies the distribution of disease in human populations and the factors determining that distribution, chiefly by the use of statistics. Unlike other medical disciplines, epidemiology concerns itself with groups of people rather than individual patients and is frequently retrospective, or historical, in nature."

Epidemiology. (n.d.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved August 11, 2020, from https://www.britannica.com/science/epidemiology

Below are some of the suggested databases for locating scholarly articles pertaining to epidemiology.  

If you would like to see the full list of databases available to Touro students, click here. Once there, you can narrow your database options to ones most likely to contain information about epidemiology by choosing Health Sciences in the drop down menu.

• Epidemiology and Health
• Epidemiology and Infection
• Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
• Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

All of Touro's books can be found by searching the catalog (above, or where it says Catalog Find Print Books on the library homepage).

Use the advanced search to limit your results by year, campus location, etc. Search just eBooks by selecting eBooks on the library homepage. If a print book you'd like is at a different campus, learn how to request it. 

The items below are just a sampling of the many titles available:

• World Health Organization
• National Institutes of Health
• National Library of Medicine
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology