Epidemiology and Medical statistics

With COVID-19 sweeping across the globe with near impunity, it is thwarting governments and health organizations efforts to contain it.

Preventing Substance Abuse is an informal guide to successful programs for treating specific substance abuse problems, identifying their origins, implementation, outcomes, and, where possible, contacts for obtaining additional information.

This book begins with an introduction of pragmatic cluster randomized trials (PCTs) and reviews various pragmatic issues that need to be addressed by statisticians at the design stage.

Epidemiology has long played a critical role in investigating outbreaks of foodborne illness and in identifying the microbial pathogens associated with such illness.

One of the hallmarks of the 21st century medicine is the emergence of digital therapeutics (DTx)-evidence-based, clinically validated digital technologies to prevent, diagnose, treat, and manage various diseases and medical conditions.

A synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.

Lowers the Learning Curve for Physicians and Researchers!

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

This book is a clinically oriented introduction to the new, emerging field of evidence-based medicine.

A fundamental and straightforward guide to using and understanding statistical concepts in medical research Designed specifically for healthcare practitioners who need to understand basic biostatistics but do not have much time to spare, The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses and Clinicians presents important statistical methods used in today's biomedical research and provides insight on their appropriate application.

The past three decades have witnessed modern advances in statistical modeling and evidence discovery in biomedical, clinical, and population-based research.

Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease.

Explores values, ideas and structures promoting justice for children and families, under the headings of fairness, protection and autonomy.

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

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.

Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions---areas where the unexpected can occur and where Western medical capabilities are often unavailable.

This is the first comprehensive text to provide not only a detailed explanation of how the SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) virus is spread within human populations, but also an epidemiological analysis and interpretation of viral pandemics to enable better measures for prevention and control.

In the previous edition of this book, the predominant theme was applying epidemiology to assist managers in dealing with an environment in which the structure of health care financing was rapidly changing to managed care and in which there was increasing competition among health care providers.

Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics, Third Edition, is a primary source for medical technologists and life scientists seeking to understand how electromagnetic fields interact with the body, and how they are used in medical applications.

Praise for previous editions:"e;Gandrud has written a great outline of how a fully reproducible research project should look from start to finish, with brief explanations of each tool that he uses along the way.

This book provides a comprehensive resource on the pathology of the human singleton placenta.

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

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 insights into contemporary issues and challenges in soft computing applications and techniques in healthcare.

This book is the first exclusively devoted to the systematic synthesis of diagnostic test accuracy studies.

This book provides family doctors with a wealth of evidence-based indications and tips regarding geriatric medicine and approaches for the management of older patients, to be applied in daily practice.

Theory of illness causation is an important issue in all biomedical sciences, and solid etiological explanations are needed in order to develop therapeutic approaches in medicine and preventive interventions in public health.

Global simultaneous development is becoming more necessary as the cost of developing medical products continues to grow.

Statistical Methods in Healthcare In recent years the number of innovative medicinal products and devices submitted and approved by regulatory bodies has declined dramatically.

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials for Predictive Medicine provides statistical guidance on conducting clinical trials for predictive medicine.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic threw the world into complete chaos with its rapid and devastating spread.

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.

Highly illustrated review of diagnosis, staging and treatment of primary liver carcinomas by expert multidisciplinary author team for wide readership.

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The human foetus is separated from the maternal blood by the syncytiotrophoblast induced by endogeneous human retrovirus-encoded proteins.

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.

A Hands-On Approach to Teaching Introductory StatisticsExpanded with over 100 more pages, Introduction to Statistical Data Analysis for the Life Sciences, Second Edition presents the right balance of data examples, statistical theory, and computing to teach introductory statistics to students in the life sciences.

This book integrates contemporary knowledge about dementia across cultures, covering major clinical, epidemiological and scientific topics and enriched with personal insights.

Essentials of Clinical Informatics provides a concise and user-friendly overview on important topics such as technical infrastructure, team members and their roles, informatics methods, policies and laws, implementation, and operations.

Ein Virus dominiert weltweit die Kommunikationsströme.

New technologies like AI, medical apps and implants seem very exciting but they too often have bugs and are susceptible to cyberattacks.

The number of people who live in Asia is greater than the total number of people who live in the rest of the world.

Since the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent cases of anthrax in Florida and New York City, attention has been focused on the threat of b- logical warfare and bioterrorism.

This book delivers a sophisticated package of statistical methods for advanced master''s (MPH) and PhD students in public health and epidemiology, involved in data analysis.