Epidemiology and Medical statistics

This book covers all details for a successful control and elimination strategy against propagation of deadly liver and intestinal flukes of the genus Schistosoma in China.

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

This book covers some of the most novel genetic and genomic concepts in epidemiology, such as geospatial statistics and systems biology from a clinical point of view by explaining molecular applications with accessible human studies.

In this book, both basic and advanced concepts are discussed for considering mixtures from initial exposure characterization through evaluation of risk associated with combined exposures.

This textbook and guide focuses on methodologies for bias analysis in epidemiology and public health, not only providing updates to the first edition but also further developing methods and adding new advanced methods.

This book, now in an extensively revised second edition, provides an exhaustive review of the state of the art in the management of prostate cancer, from screening to treatment, with emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach.

This textbook covers the full spectrum of tuberculosis-related topics in a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow, readily accessible format.

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.

This book is the first scientific publication on diseases caused by agents circulating in natural environments independently from humans, covering the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

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.

This textbook introduces the core competencies, tools and perspectives to manage free-ranging animal population health and demonstrates their need and relevance to help wildlife cope with the ever-increasing pressures of the Anthropocene, manifested by global megatrends such as climate change, urbanization and pollution.

This book presents a thorough and critical review of current  knowledge about  the age of onset of mental disorders.

This book serves as a concise guide to urinary stone disease, providing simplified and complete information about the topic area.

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

This book is designed to train graduate students across disciplines within the fields of public health and medicine, with the goal of guiding them in the transition to independent researchers.

This book is a compact clinical introduction to Lyme borreliosis for physicians of all specialties who care for patients with suspected B.

This book sheds new light on contaminant transport in karst aquifers and the public health implications of contaminated karst groundwater.

This unique and comprehensive title offers state-of-the-art guidance on all of the clinical principles and practices needed in providing optimal health and well-being services for college students.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

This book brings together reports of original empirical studies which explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban mobility and transportation and the associated policy responses.

This book describes the variety of direct and indirect population size estimation (PSE) methods available along with their strengths and weaknesses.

This book deals with randomly moving objects and their spreading.

This book provides the readers with a series of complex cases that are organized by psychiatric disorder.

This text provides essential modeling skills and methodology for the study of infectious diseases through a one-semester modeling course or directed individual studies.

This book demonstrates how GIS techniques and statistical methods can be used to emphasise the characteristics of population and its related variables, vis-a-vis care facilities and the status of vector borne diseases, as well as for malaria modeling.

The fields of rare diseases research and orphan products development continue to expand with more products in research and development status.

This book addresses the COVID-19 pandemic from a quantitative perspective based on mathematical models and methods largely used in nonlinear physics.

This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural beliefs, memories of past wars and narratives and actions of the government; 2) a good governance standpoint that exposes lapses in health governance and the general unpreparedness of the government and international community to deal with the outbreak; 3) a scientific research standpoint that looks at the role played by the Sierra Leone's Lassa Fever Research Laboratories as a main hub for the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of communicable diseases in the Mano River Union countries; and 4) an international politics standpoint that examines the development of a new bio-security international apparatus involving a wide range of international actors and institutions.

This book provides readers with a thorough review on cervical cancer, treatment guidelines and emerging therapies available for the disease.

This book is designed to provide a foundation of knowledge regarding the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical presentation of atopic dermatitis in both pediatric and adult patients.

This volume presents infectious diseases modeled mathematically, taking seasonality and changes in population behavior into account, using a switched and hybrid systems framework.

This book is well-structured book which consists of 31 full chapters.

Dieses Buch liefert eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die Grundlagen der Datenauswertung mit dem freien Statistikpaket R.

This is a concise introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics written specifically for medical students and first-time learners of clinical research methods.

This book emphasizes the clinical epidemiology of chronic liver diseases with a specific focus on the methodology of the discussed studies.

The lifestyles and socio-economic status that are prevalent in regions of the world with limited resources form the background for the unique features of neoplastic diseases in these areas, where the majority of the world population lives.

In diesem essential werden historische, biologische und epidemiologische Aspekte von Seuchen beschrieben.

This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision-making under uncertainty by combining test information theory with expected utility theory.

This book provides up-to-date information on the characteristics of each species of intestinal fluke found in humans and on the management of infections caused by these trematodes.

This book covers recent developments in epidemic process models and related data on temporally varying networks.

This book presents the history of HIV/AIDS in China, which over the last three decades has been a gripping tale of exclusion and fear, and then, by turns, of involuntary tragedy, cautious experimentation and finally vigorous response.

This book provides an up-to-date review of fasciolosis, a disease caused by Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica, including its biology, transmission, epidemiology, host distribution, economic impact, and novel approaches for its diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

The main focus of this book is providing evidence on and interpreting the risks associated with heated tobacco products (HTPs) in terms of their health effects and social effects; in addition, the author introduces a harm reduction theory related to HTPs and electronic cigarettes.

This book presents a detailed explanation of the concepts, taxonomy, and challenges in Healthcare 4.

The book focuses on the iodine deficiency, endemic fluorosis, endemic arsenic poisoning, Kashin-Beck disease and Keshan disease which are five kinds of national key endemic diseases, a total of six chapters, comprehensively systematically introduces the information of five kinds of endemic diseases, including the epidemic characteristics, clinical manifestation, diagnosis standards, and the current control situation, preventive strategy, working experience, and successful control cases, etc.

This book presents models describing HIV transmission rates at population level, discussing the main statistical methods and analytical interventions.

This volume consists of three parts: Part I comprises 11 chapters on the basic concepts of statistics, Part II consists of 10 chapters on multivariate statistics and Part III contains 12 chapters on design and analysis for medical research.

This book introduces flood inundation area and flood risks assessment based on a comprehensive monitoring system using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies.