E-drug: New book on Pharmacoepidemiology
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I would like to recommend a new introductory textbook on
Pharmacoepidemiology-Principles and Practice. The book is written by two
public health pharmacists Brenda Waning and Michael Montagne who teach at
the Massachussets College of Pharmacy. They also teach with me at Boston
University School of Public Health in a course that I teach on Promoting
Rational Drug Use.
The book is aimed at pharmacy students and others interested in
pharmacoepidemiology. It includes needed definitions of terms Clear,
concise introduction to the epidemiology of drug use, valuable
concepts of public health, primarily measures of risk, real-life
applications of risk
assessment, screening, and diagnostic testing, practical methods in
epidemiology, post-marketing drug surveillance studies, and
pharmacoeconomics.
The book has exercises which can be used to clarify concepts and is
based on the course developed especially for pharmacy students. It
serves as a
valuable reference to be used in Drug Literature Evaluation courses.
It is a basic introductory text and will not compete with Brian Stroms mega
book on Pharmacoepidemiology. It is also much less sophisticated than the
materials developed in New South Wales by David Henry, Sue Hill and many
others. But for teachers in schools of pharmacy this will be a very useful
text book which will make the teaching of public health concepts in
pharmacy much easier.
The book is published by McGraw Hill and is quoted on Amazon.com at $34.95.
Richard Laing
Associate Professor of International Health
Boston University School of Public Health
715 Albany St, T4W, Boston MA 02118 USA
Tel 617 414-1444 Fax 617 638-4476
E-mail richardl@bu.edu
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