Epidemiology and Medical statistics

In this introductory textbook to epidemiology, students will discover the knowledge and skills required for managing population-based health care under health reform.

Handbook of Statistical Methods for Case-Control Studies is written by leading researchers in the field.

Discrete or count data arise in experiments where the outcome variables are the numbers of individuals classified into unique, non-overlapping categories.

Introductory Statistics for the Health Sciences takes students on a journey to a wilderness where science explores the unknown, providing students with a strong, practical foundation in statistics.

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.

The Routledge International Handbook of Delinquency and Health presents state-of-the-art research and theorizing on the intersections between health, delinquency, and the juvenile justice system.

Intraindividual variability (IIV) of human development and behavior across the entire life-span is explored in this new book.

This book aims to fill a gap in the current construction health and safety research and discover new knowledge about work stress induced chronic diseases among construction industry professionals.

This timely, unique, and insightful book provides students and practitioners with the tools and skills needed to evaluate social and policy programs across a range of disciplines-from public health to social work to education-enabling the allocation of scarce human and financial resources to advance the health and well-being of individuals and populations.

Longitudinal Analysis provides an accessible, application-oriented treatment of introductory and advanced linear models for within-person fluctuation and change.

The papers in this volume discuss important methodological advances in several important areas, including multivariate failure time data and interval censored data.

Research on cholera has contributed both to knowledge of the epidemic in particular, and to a broader understanding of the fundamental ways in which cells communicate with each other.

The growing perception of the public and politicians that life is extremely risky has led to a dramatic and increasing interest in risk analysis.

Easy access to simple, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts.

Dynamic optimization is rocket science - and more.

Governments and clinical providers are investing billions of dollars in health information technologies (HIT).

This book addresses how coping with the pandemic has been shaped by the interplay between cognition and emotion.

The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health.

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

Recent years have seen an explosion in new kinds of data on infectious diseases, including data on social contacts, whole genome sequences of pathogens, biomarkers for susceptibility to infection, serological panel data, and surveillance data.

As evidenced by the anthrax attacks in 2001, the SARS outbreak in 2003, and the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, a pathogen does not recognize geographic or national boundaries, often leading to devastating consequences.

During the past twenty years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States.

Ideal for high school and lower undergraduate readers, this book provides a holistic and multifaceted look at the state of health in the United States today by examining a wide variety of health indicators against necessary background and contextual information.

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

Contributors include Luc Berlivet (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University), Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library, Oxford), Nicholas Dodier (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Michael Donnelly (Bard College), Volker Hess (Humboldt-University), Peter Keating (University of Quebec at Montreal), Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech University), Ilana Lowy (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Harry M.

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.

The integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) is a recent computational method that can fit Bayesian models in a fraction of the time required by typical Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.

This book is intended to show the great achievements and valuable experience of Chinese public health practices and epidemiological theories and methods.

Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis are the cornerstones of evidence-based medicine.

Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations and industry leaders benefit from nurses' informatics talent - essential skills, knowledge, wisdom, and contributions - to add immense value in the current and future healthcare technology landscape.

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.

The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world.

This book explores the current difficulties and unsolved problems in the field of particle therapy and, after analysing them, discusses how (and if) innovative Monte Carlo approaches can be used to solve them.

A timely thought-provoking book, which examines the first-ever comparative cost-benefit analysis of responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Diseases transmitted by insects continue to have a major impact on human populations.

Statistical methods are becoming more important in all biological fields of study.

Blastomycosis remains the most enigmatic of human mycotic infections.

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

Handbook of Survival Analysis presents modern techniques and research problems in lifetime data analysis.

In the struggle against vector-borne diseases, it is critical that we bridge the gap among vector control workers on the ground (practitioners), public health planners and administrators, and (academic) medical entomologists.

Fertility and Pregnancy: An Epidemiologic Perspective, is a lively overview of human reproduction: how it works, and what causes it to go wrong.

Asia has become the new battle ground for the war against HIV/AIDS.

This timely revision of the authoritative handbook gives a wide range of providers practical insights and strategies for treating cancer survivors' long-term physical and mental health issues.

Bayesian analysis has developed rapidly in applications in the last two decades and research in Bayesian methods remains dynamic and fast-growing.

Throughout the world, scientists and the general with environmental illness.

This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice.

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