MANAGERIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY FOR HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the application of epidemiological principles to the delivery of health care services and management of health care organizations. As health administration becomes evidence--and population--based, it becomes critical to understand the impact of disease on populations of people in a service area. This book also addresses the need of health organizations' to demonstrate emergency preparedness and respond to bioterrorism threats. A follow-up to the standard text in the field, this book introduces core epidemiology principles and clearly illustrates their essential applications in planning, evaluating, and managing health care for populations. This book demonstrates how health care executives can incorporate the practice of epidemiology into their various management functions and is rich with current examples, concepts, and case studies that reinforce the essential theories, methods, and applications of managerial epidemiology. Written for faculty, students, researchers, and professionals in health care administration and public health practice, this practical resource also includes study questions. The previous edition of this book was published under the title Designing Health Care for Populations: Applied Epidemiology in Health Care Administration, ISBN: 0-7879-5226-5. Praise for Designing Health Care for Populations "The authors should be complimented on the ease with which mathematical statistics are described and outlined using real-life examples.

All new students of epidemiology can benefit. The authors, both of whom have outstanding credentials and experience in this area, should be credited with an excellent basic textbook." --Allen Brinker, M.D., M.S., Doody's Book Review Service, Chicago.