This text for graduate students in nursing integrates epidemiology and clinical nursing concepts, focusing on disease prevention. The text is designed to prepare students to meet the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) standards for Doctor of Nursing Practice. After an overview of the history of epidemiology, early chapters treat the role of epidemiology and statistics in advanced nursing practice, and describe study designs and their outcomes. Later chapters examine emerging infectious diseases, screening and prevention, chronic diseases, genetic epidemiology, and environmental epidemiology. There is also material on the role of culture in epidemiology, emergency preparedness, ethical and legal issues, and epidemiological applications in clinical nursing science. Pedagogical features include key points, critical thinking questions, and web resources, plus b&w process illustrations, photos, charts, and tables. Macha and McDonough are affiliated with the School of Nursing at the University of North Florida's Brooks College of Health. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)