Epidemiology and Medical statistics

A hands-on guide to using statistics in health research, from planning, through analysis, and on to reporting A Practical Approach to Using Statistics in Health Research offers an easy to use, step-by-step guide for using statistics in health research.

This book presents knowledge gained by the authors along with methods they developed, over more than 30 years of experience measuring, mod- ing, and mapping environmental space-time ?

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

It is remarkable that each month the quantity ofarticles published on AIDS still that address numbers in the thousands.

Cancer is a dreaded disease.

This volume, representing a compilation of authoritative reviews on a multitude of uses of statistics in epidemiology and medical statistics written by internationally renowned experts, is addressed to statisticians working in biomedical and epidemiological fields who use statistical and quantitative methods in their work.

This book aims to concisely present the most common types of musculoskeletal infections and demonstrate the key components of accurate diagnosis, treatment, and management.

Offering a holistic view of the pioneering trends and innovations in smart healthcare management, this book focuses on the methodologies, frameworks, design issues, tools, architectures, and technologies necessary to develop and understand intelligent healthcare systems and emerging applications in the present era.

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Childhood acute leukemias are one of the main causes of death in children aged 1 to 14 years in some countries; and unfortunately, we have been unable to prevent it.

Introduction to Mathematical Oncology presents biologically well-motivated and mathematically tractable models that facilitate both a deep understanding of cancer biology and better cancer treatment designs.

Measurement error arises ubiquitously in applications and has been of long-standing concern in a variety of fields, including medical research, epidemiological studies, economics, environmental studies, and survey research.

This book examines how the digital revolution has reorganized the model of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues for a continued paradigm shift to digital healthcare.

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Incidence and mortality of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD) vary considerably among races, populations and ethnic groups.

This comprehensive, well-illustrated, and easily accessible book documents the latest research outcomes concerning sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and describes important advances in their prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

COVID Transmission Modeling: An Insight into Infectious Diseases Mechanism provides an interdisciplinary overview of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and covers various aspects of newer modeling techniques and practical solutions for health emergencies.

This book discusses growing environmental threats posed by air and water pollution, exploring their causes, impacts, and potential solutions.

Real-life examples and exercises emphasize interpretation of statistical linear models and computer output using a minimum of mathematics.

Quantitative Methods in HIV/AIDS Research provides a comprehensive discussion of modern statistical approaches for the analysis of HIV/AIDS data.

Epidemiological criminology is an emerging paradigm which explores the public health outcomes associated with engagement in crime and criminal justice.

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In the latter half of the 20th century, Japan developed into a thriving economy, and the Japanese remain one of the healthiest populations in the world to this day.

This book is a compilation of some of the most remarkable contributions made by scientists currently working in Latin America to the understanding of virus biology, the pathogenesis of virus-related diseases, virus epidemiology, vaccine trials and antivirals development.

Mankind now faces even more challenging environment- and health-related problems than ever before.

This book introduces basic concepts, principle, and methods of medical statistics systematically and practically, especially in the statistical design of the experiment in terms of the specific problems, adequate use of statistical methods based on actual data and the reasonable explanation for statistical results.

The Tutorials in Biostatistics have become a very popular feature of the prestigious Wiley journal, Statistics in Medicine (SIM).

One of the most crucial skills a clinician, scientist, or student can learn is to create, conduct, and interpret the conclusions of a clinical study.

Health information technology (HIT) is a critical component of the modern healthcare system.

The purpose of this book is to examine the etiology of cancer in large human populations using mathematical models developed from an inter-disciplinary perspective of the population epidemiological, biodemographic, genetic and physiological basis of the mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

The new edition of this critically praised textbook continues to provide the most comprehensive overview of the concepts, methods, and research advances in the field; particularly the application of molecular genomics and of neuroimaging.

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today.

Whoever coined the adage "e;an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"e; could not have known how important this adage would become.

Health economics is concerned with the study of the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions.

This important book not only highlights the high rates of morbidity and mortality among young black women in the US, but also provides a lens through which the reasons behind such health disparities can be understood.

This book is a fresh and readable account of the Covid-19 pandemic and how scientists and medical doctors are helping governments to manage the crisis.

Eight interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars and public figures discuss the timely theme of migration in a range of contexts.

This text brings together important ideas on the model-based approach to sample survey, which has been developed over the last twenty years.

This volume of Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series collects the scientific papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Retinal Pigment Epithelium and the 4th Meeting of the European Macula Group held in Genoa, May 29-June 1, 1996.

This volume provides an overview of recent advances in our understanding of the biology of marburg- and ebolaviruses.

The 1989 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis dramatically demonstrated one of the most important reasons for having the Society - to bring together people with highly diverse backgrounds and disciplines to assess the common problems of societal and individual risks.

Theprimarybiostatisticaltoolsinmodernmedicalresearcharesingle-outcome, multiple-predictor methods: multiple linear regression for continuous o- comes, logistic regression for binary outcomes, and the Cox proportional h- ardsmodelfortime-to-eventoutcomes.

Written by epidemiologists, ethicists and legal scholars, this book provides an in-depth account of the moral problems that often confront epidemiologists, including both theoretical and practical issues.

In the wake of COVID, it's more important than ever to understand epidemics-how they emerge and what we can do to fight back.

This new volume provides exhaustive knowledge on a wide range of natural products and holistic concepts that have provided promising in the treatment of leishmaniasis.