Epidemiology and Medical statistics

This book deals with the advantages of using artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against the COVID-19 and against future pandemics that could threat humanity and our environment.

In this innovative new book, Steve Selvin provides readers with a clear understanding of intermediate biostatistical methods without advanced mathematics or statistical theory (for example, no Bayesian statistics, no causal inference, no linear algebra and only a slight hint of calculus).

Power and Sample Size in R guides the reader through power and sample size calculations for a wide variety of study outcomes and designs and illustrates their implementation in R software.

Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book PrizeThe Zika virus is devastating lives and communities.

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This fascinating book gives readers an appreciation of how biomedical research should work and how the reality is all too often seriously flawed.

Myoung-jae Lee reviews the three most popular methods (and their extensions) in applied economics and other social sciences: matching, regression discontinuity, and difference in differences.

Researchers measure the effectiveness of new interventions using randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

Geospatial health data are essential to inform public health and policy.

This book provides a systematic treatment of the mathematical underpinnings of work in the theory of outbreak dynamics and their control, covering balanced perspectives between theory and practice including new material on contemporary topics in the field of infectious disease modelling.

To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors need to understand how research is conducted and be able to critically appraise research evidence.

Towards a Digital Health Ecology : NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass is about technology adoption in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) as told from the inflection point of a disaster.

Discover how gay men's health care can be improved!

Easy access to simple, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts.

"e;Everything worth winning in life boils down to teamwork and leadership.

This authoritative reference volume emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals.

This volume, focusing on palliative and terminal care, is part of a survey of health care needs for specific conditions, published on behalf of the Department of Health.

Today, scientists are expected to be more accountable and transparent than at any other time in history.

Dieses Buch ist eine kompakte klinische Einführung in die Lyme-Borreliose für Ärzte aller Fachrichtungen, die Patienten mit Verdacht auf B.

This book highlights various evolutionary algorithm techniques for various medical conditions and introduces medical applications of evolutionary computation for real-time diagnosis.

Down the ages, war epidemics have decimated the fighting strength of armies, caused the suspension and cancellation of military operations, and have brought havoc to the civil populations of belligerent and non-belligerent states alike.

A comprehensive, best practices resource for public health and healthcare practitioners and students interested in humanitarian emergencies.

This book is a logical companion volume to Women at High Risk to Breast Cancer (Kluwer, 1989) edited by me previously.

Medical Product Safety Evaluation: Biological Models and Statistical Methods presents cutting-edge biological models and statistical methods that are tailored to specific objectives and data types for safety analysis and benefit-risk assessment.

In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world.

This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice.

Exposure to ambient air pollutants, both indoors and outdoors has been associated with the exacerbation and also in the etiology of diverse human diseases.

In the late 1960s, the World Health Organization initiated a series of international studies of the incidence, characteristics, course, and consequences of schizophrenia.

This book emphasizes the occurrence of sublethal injury in the indicator and pathogenic bacteria commonly encountered in foods, water and feed and modifications of the currently recommended methods for the effective detection of these bacteria.

The concept of frailty offers a convenient way to introduce unobserved heterogeneity and associations into models for survival data.

This book is aimed at those studying and working in the field of health care, including nurses and the professions allied to medicine, who have little prior knowledge of statistics but for whom critical review of research is an essential skill.

This title critically reviews old and new literature, help to create greater awareness of the disease in the US and helps in the evaluation of certain epidemiological and public health issues.

The author evaluates the evidence, or lack thereof, supporting claims in many fields, with special emphasis in education.

This book offers a radically different perspective on the topic of health inequity.

"e;Biomedical Imaging: Principles and Advancements"e; offers a captivating exploration of the intricate landscapes within the human body, revealing the transformative power of biomedical imaging.

This volume investigates mediated lives and media narratives during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Asia as a focus point.

"e;Methods of Clinical Epidemiology"e; serves as a text on methods useful to clinical researchers.

This ambitious reference surveys worldwide efforts at controlling the spread of tuberculosis, with special emphasis on the developing world.

This volume addresses SDG 3 from a mathematical standpoint, sharing novel perspectives of existing communicable disease modelling technologies of the next generation and disseminating new developments in modelling methodologies and simulation techniques.

Explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies, including COVID-19.

Full of biological applications, exercises, and interactive graphical examples, this text presents comprehensive coverage of both modern analytical methods and statistical foundations.

Explores values, ideas and structures promoting justice for children and families, under the headings of fairness, protection and autonomy.

The Applied Genomic Epidemiology Handbook: A Practical Guide to Leveraging Pathogen Genomic Data in Public Health provides rationale, theory, and implementation guidance to help public health practitioners incorporate pathogen genomic data analysis into their investigations.

From 2013 to 2015, over 11,000 people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history.

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A comprehensive introduction of fundamental panel data methodologies.