Epidemiology and Medical statistics

A textbook on the use of advanced statistical methods in healthcare sciencesPrimer of Applied Regression & Analysis of Variance is a textbook especially created for medical, public health, and social and environmental science students who need applied (not theoretical) training in the use of statistical methods.

Cure Models: Methods, Applications and Implementation is the first book in the last 25 years that provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the basics of modern cure models, including estimation, inference, and software.

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

The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world.

Competition for research funds in epidemiology, preventive medicine and biostatistics is highly competitive and at the same time, the grant application and review process at such agencies at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has undergone substantial revisions.

An accessible practical introduction to epidemiology in medical research.

This book is intended for anyone who is considering a career in statistics or a related field, or those at any point in their career with sufficient work time remaining such that investing in additional learning could be beneficial.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest standard medical procedures and surgical techniques for biliary atresia (BA), as well as the perioperative care, long-term follow-up and transitions.

In an age when electronic health records (EHRs) are an increasingly important source of data, this essential textbook provides both practical and theoretical guidance to researchers conducting epidemiological or clinical analysis through EHRs.

Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of the geographical distribution of disease.

An authoritative, evidence-based overview of the health needs of people with intellectual disabilities and how to manage these needs appropriately.

One Health: Challenges for the 21st Century is a transdisciplinary approach to health, considering the interdependency of human, animal, and environmental health.

After graduating from Tripoli, Libya in 1990, Dr Benamer came to the United Kingdom in 1991 to further his training in medicine.

In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to abandon their homes and flee for their lives.

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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the science and application of the Exposome through seventeen chapters from leaders in the field.

By the mid-twentieth century, smallpox had vanished from North America and Europe but continued to persist throughout Africa, Asia, and South America.

This stimulating volume uses multiple lenses to analyze the complex causes of health disparities affecting minorities, in particular African Americans, and explains how this knowledge can be used to reduce their destructive effects.

This book addresses the health status of both mothers and children, highlighting acute malnutrition through anthropometric indices such as weight-for-height, weight-for-age, height-for-age, and BMI.

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

This book comprehensively reviews various vector-borne diseases and their control methods.

Ticks of the family Ixodidae, commonly known as hard ticks, occur worldwide and are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of agents pathogenic to humans.

It is quite common in a randomized clinical trial (RCT) to encounter patients who do not comply with their assigned treatment.

Distinctively, this book brings together an end-to-end understanding of heatwaves, that is, a consideration of their causes, consequences for human and natural systems and societal responses to them in the form of adaptation and mitigation actions.

Blackwell Publishing is delighted to announce that this book has been Highly Commended in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition.

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Simplifies the treatment of statistical inference focusing on how to specify and interpret models in the context of testing causal theories.

Proceedings of the FEMS Symposium on Genes and Proteins Underlying Microbial Urinary Tract Virulence: Basic Aspects and Applications, held September 16-19, 1999, in Pecs, Hungary.

Chronic diseases-heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, and common cancers-claim more than one out of every two lives worldwide.

Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century.

Despite vaccines and medicines, we have not succeeded in eradicating the most poisonous viruses in the world, like jaundice, measles, diarrhea, polio, and AIDS, not to mention newcomers like West Nile and SARS.

Injury is recognized as a major public health issue worldwide.

Salmonella infections of man and animals continue to be a distressing health problem worldwide.

Circular Statistics in R provides the most comprehensive guide to the analysis of circular data in over a decade.

This self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology has been written specifically for those with a basic training in biology, therefore no previous knowledge is assumed and the mathematics is deliberately kept at a manageable level.

This book is a unique merger of two divergent parts.

A collection of highly valuable statistical and computational approaches designed for developing powerful methods to analyze large-scale high-throughput data derived from studies of complex diseases.

The modern realities of cybersecurity have uncovered the unpreparedness of many sectors and industries to deal with emerging threats.

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner?

It is common practice to evaluate wastewater to understand drug consumption, from antibiotics to illegal narcotics, and even to analyze dietary habits and trends.

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

Panteleimon Ekkekakis provides an accessible guidebook which clarifies theory and proposes a sound system for selecting measures for affective constructs.

In recent years, a great deal of interest has been focused on suicide in the elderly and in the young.

Despite the growing interest in the role of psychological trauma in the genesis of psychiatric disorders, few volumes have addressed these issues from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.

This book provides deep insights into the ecology of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis in natural foci, its diversity, genetic variability and the function of the vector, thus painting a holistic picture of how plague pandemics have evolved and how the bacterium has adapted perfectly to its environment over such a long period of time.

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.

With specially commissioned introductions from international experts, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series draws together previously published chapters on key themes in psychological science that engage with people's unprecedented experience of the pandemic.

Das erste Buch von Christian Drosten – gemeinsam mit dem Journalisten und Bestsellerautor Georg MascoloDie Pandemie ist vorbei – aber ihre unbedingt notwendige Aufarbeitung steht nach wie vor aus.