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The development and evaluation of Basic Epidemiology: Student's Text
Author(s) -
BEAGLEHOLE R.,
BONITA R.,
ROBINSON E.,
KJELLSTROM T.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1992.tb00210.x
Subject(s) - epidemiology , medical education , psychology , mathematics education , medicine , pathology
Summary. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a World Health Organization book Basic Epidemiology: Student's Text. This book was a response to a need identified by members of the WHO Global Environmental Epidemiology network. A draft was commented on by members of the Network and then at an editorial meeting. Two thousand copies of a pre‐publication version were prepared and this version was formally evaluated by 13 teachers of introductory courses of epidemiology and less formally by members of the Epidemiology Net‐work. A high response was received to the evaluation questionnaires; 45% of the students rated the test overall as ‘very useful’ and another 54% as ‘useful’; many useful comments were received and were incorporated into the final version which will be published by WHO in 1993.