Epidemiology and Medical statistics

It was the ultimate test for CEOs, and almost none of them saw it coming.

Unsere Gesundheit ist von dem geprägt, wer wir sind, wo wir leben, was wir tun und mit wem wir uns umgeben.

Die fünfte, überarbeitete Auflage stellt in klarer Form die relevanten Themen der Statistik vor.

Unsere Gesundheit ist von dem geprägt, wer wir sind, wo wir leben, was wir tun und mit wem wir uns umgeben.

Discusses methods available for longitudinal data analysis in non-technical language, allowing readers to apply techniques to their work.

This book presents a unified and up-to-date introduction to ROC methodologies, covering both diagnosis (classification) and prediction.

This book presents a unified and up-to-date introduction to ROC methodologies, covering both diagnosis (classification) and prediction.

Gives insight into the use of behavioural approaches to incentivise better health and health systems.

Discusses methods available for longitudinal data analysis in non-technical language, allowing readers to apply techniques to their work.

The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a generic measure of health effect that can be used in cost-effectiveness analysis as an alternative to the quality-adjusted life year (QALY).

What do the movements of molecules and the migration of humans have in common?

This book comprehensively reviews the 10 most influential epidemics in history, going beyond morbid accounts of symptoms and statistics to tell the often forgotten stories of what made these epidemics so calamitous.

This new edition of Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials continues the tradition of translating biostatistics in the health sciences literature with clarity and irreverence.

The authors' intent is to translate the terminology of epidemiology into street talk, so that the common sense of its methods will emerge.

Teaching Clinical Research Methodology by Example has two principal objectives: (1) to tell the story of the research process in action and to provide a glimpse into the minds of the researchers responsible for some of the major advances (and setbacks) in modern medicine; (2) to explain the principles of evidence-based medicine by reviewing the research methods required to prove or disprove a theory.

This book introduces the principles and foundations of advanced statistical methods for designing experiments and testing hypotheses in life sciences.

To introduce a firm understanding of public health, PDQ Public Health presents the history of how the tools of public health have evolved and are applied for the detection, measurement, and intervention in public health threats and risks.

If you have any interest at all in epidemiology, modern medicine, or the survival of the human race, do read The Chickens Fight Back Georgia StraightEmerging diseases like mad cow, SARS, and avian flu are for the moment, at least far more prevalent in animals than in humans.

Control of parasitic infections of humans has progressed rapidly over the last three decades.

Written by renowned epidemiologists and public health experts, this unique text provides complete, concise coverage of epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health in clear, easy-to-understand terms.

The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical careFirst choice of students, educators, and practitionersA thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatisticsHelps students become informed users and consumers of biostatisticsLearn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields.

Epidemiology is integral to public health.

As waves of epidemic disease swept the Philippines in the late nineteenth century, some colonial physicians began to fear that the indigenous population would be wiped out.

Essentials of Research Methodology and Biostatistics-A Comprehensive Guide for Health Care Professionals is a precisely written textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate medical, dental, nursing, physiotherapy, clinical psychology and other allied health care profession students.

In this new edition, the editors and contributors update and expand on the educational framework that was introduced in the first edition for rethinking disability in public health study and practice and for attaining the competencies that should accompany this knowledge.

This book is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in New York City (NYC), the primary epicenter of the United States.

Computer-based infectious disease surveillance systems are capable of real-time or near real-time detection of serious illnesses and potential bioterrorism agent exposures and represent a major step forward in disease surveillance.

Students and researchers in the health sciences are faced with greater opportunity and challenge than ever before.

This text gathers the weaknesses revealed during recent infections outbreaks and organizes them into a guide for combating the trends in emerging infections as they relate to hospital preparedness.

 Antimicrobial resistance is now a general problem.

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.

This book weaves all of these factors together to engage in and promote medical, biomedical and psychosocial interventions, including lifestyle changes, for healthier aging outcomes.

This revised and updated new edition of a successful book is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive guide to occupational factors of malignant diseases.

This book examines statistical methods and models used in the fields of global health and epidemiology.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

This textbook provides an exciting new addition to the area of network science featuring a stronger and more methodical link of models to their mathematical origin and explains how these relate to each other with special focus on epidemic spread on networks.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of breast MRI for screening high-risk women, including those with familial-genetic hereditary predisposition and previous chest radiation therapy, typically lymphoma survivors.

This innovative volume introduces Trajectory Analysis, a new systems-based approach to measuring nonlinear dynamics in continuous change, to public health and epidemiology.

COVID-19 has hit the world unprepared, as the deadliest pandemic of the century.

This eye-opening study adds to the scarce scholarly literature on professional athletes, bringing empirical rigor to issues often clouded by mystery and hearsay.

Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.

With HIV becoming the leading cause of infectious-disease mortality in Mainland China, this book focuses on tackling HIV/AIDS in the face of rapid political and economic change in China.

This book presents a rigorous enquiry into life course processes that are thought to influence health, integrating the latest methodologies for the study of pathways that link socio-demographic circumstances to health with an emphasis on the mediating factors that lie on these pathways.

This book includes research articles and expository papers on the applications of artificial intelligence and big data analytics to battle the pandemic.

This book discusses the current state of cancer pathway as it is relevant to sub-Saharan Africa and highlights differences in epidemiology and the underlying problems with management.

The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.

This authoritative work, now in its fourth edition, presents state of the art knowledge on all key aspects of cancer prevention.

The book examines the role of artificial intelligence during the COVID-19 pandemic, including its application in i) early warnings and alerts, ii) tracking and prediction, iii) data dashboards, iv) diagnosis and prognosis, v) treatments, and cures, and vi) social control.