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 offers a systematic introduction to Budd-Chiari syndrome, a rare but life-threatening vascular disorder of the liver, which refers to obstructions at any site from the hepatic veins to the suprahepatic inferior vena cava.
This edited book presents the latest information on epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and some current topics covering all aspects of cerebral palsy.
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.
This book provides detailed and updated knowledge about medically important 'Big Four' venomous snakes of India (Indian spectacled cobra, Indian common krait, Indian Russell's viper, and Indian saw-scaled viper).
This book is useful for administrators of different levels involved in counteracting COVID-19, surveillance professionals, clinicians, researchers specializing in epidemiology, microbiology, and infectious diseases, and politicians / legislators engaged in public health sector.
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.
This book introduces flood inundation area and flood risks assessment based on a comprehensive monitoring system using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies.
This book describes some of the key epidemiological principles, scientific approaches and quality assurance frameworks required to design and conduct biobank studies in various settings.
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.
This book discusses the management of variceal bleeding in liver cirrhosis, covering a wide range of topics, including epidemiology, mechanism, diagnosis and monitoring, prophylaxis, treatment, and prognostic assessment.
This book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of congenital cystic lung disease based on a novel classification system recently proposed by leading researchers in the field.
This book makes an original contribution in addressing contemporary critical discussions and reflections on international health policies, strategies, programmes, systems, diseases, disasters, and public health issues.
This book is the first work to conduct the emergency logistics optimization problem under the epidemic environment (whether natural or man-made), which provides a new perspective for the application of optimization theory.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the different water-associated infectious diseases and their linked pathogens with plausible strategies for their mitigation.
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 focuses on the Chinese health impact induced by ambient temperature variation, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response relationship with the mortality and morbidity from respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health among Chinese population.
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 research findings from epidemiological studies investigating chronic and intractable diseases with unidentifiable causes from a clinical perspective.
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.
Este libro constituye una nueva visión transdisciplinaria de la epidemiología, en donde se recoge la permanente refelxión y práctica de su gestor, el Dr.
El énfasis de esta obra ha sido la orientación de que los resultados finales de este proceso pedagógico en la epidemiología y la salud pública se centren finalmente en la construcción de planes de vida profesionales y personales del conocimiento epidemiológico aplicado a los servicios.
Hay un enorme poder político en las emociones compartidas que todos intuyen y que se explica en este libro, con ocasión de la crisis global de la covid-19.
Esta obra aborda el tema de la bioestadística, herramienta matemática que contribuye a la explicación del proceso salud-enfermedad, cuyos fenómenos están acompañados de gran variabilidad que debe ser medida y cuantificada.
Esta obra aborda el tema de la bioestadística, herramienta matemática que contribuye a la explicación del proceso salud-enfermedad, cuyos fenómenos están acompañados de gran variabilidad que debe ser medida y cuantificada.
Esta obra aborda el tema de la Bioestadística, herramienta matemática que contribuye a la explicación del proceso salud-enfermedad, cuyos fenómenos están acompañados de gran variabilidad que debe ser medida y cuantificada.
La epidemiología puede ser vista como una ciencia que se orienta principalmente a la solución práctica de los problemas de la salud de los pacientes y de las poblaciones.
Con base en los conceptos fundamentales tanto de la epidemiología como de la enfermería, Elementos de epidemiología para el cuidado de la enfermería presenta los puntos de encuentro de ambas disciplinas, dado que estas se unen no solamente por la historia, sino también por su preocupación por la salud y por las formas de estudiarla y de intervenir en la sociedad.
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 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 volume is based on a multidisciplinary approach towards biological and chemical threats that can, and have been previously used in bioterrorism attacks around the globe.
Guillaume Wunsch, Michel Mouchart, Josianne Duchene This book is an outcome of the activities of the Working Group on Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Differentials of the European Association for Population Studies, which was chaired for some years by one of the present editors (G.
Most branches of science have what might be termed a 'core area' which is both related to and helps to integrate peripheral topics to form the overall subject area.
