Ch.1 Introduction -- Ch.2 Describing Health and Needs of Populations -- Ch.3 Measuring Health and Needs of Populations -- Ch.4 Designs to Study the Health and Needs of Populations -- Ch.5 Standardizing Population Health Information -- Ch.6 Clinical Considerations in Population Health Care -- Ch. 7 Assessing Population Health Outcomes 135 8 Marketing Health Care for Populations -- Ch.9 Economic Analysis of Health Care for Populations -- Ch.10 Applied Epidemiology for Managers: Emergency Health Care -- Ch. 11 Applied Epidemiology for Managers: Hospital Care -- Ch.12 Applied Epidemiology for Managers: Health and Work Productivity -- Ch. 13 Applied Epidemiology for Managers: Regional Pediatric Inpatient Services -- Ch.14 Applied Epidemiology for Managers: Senior Care -- App. I Overview of Hypothesis Testing -- App. II One-Sided Hypothesis Tests -App. III Statistical Power -- App. IV Sample Size -- App. V Hypothesis Testing Using Categorical Data -- App. VI Extreme Values: Outliers.

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