Epidemiology and Medical statistics

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

Few topics in women's medicine today are as fraught with confusion and controversy as the question of appropriate treatment for menopausal symptoms and the prevention of negative long term health outcomes common to post-menopausal women.

Covers a wide range of treatment options for drug misuse and dependence in a practically orientated and academic manner.

Mathematical models are increasingly being used to examine questions in infectious disease control.

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

This Handbook on cancer biology comprehensively reviews the current status of the oncobiology of major cancer types, cancer detection and treatment strategies, principles and processes of cancer drug development, and nanomedicine and other emerging cancer medicine applications to cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Biostatistics Decoded covered a large number of statistical methods that are mainly applied to clinical and epidemiological research, as well as a comprehensive discussion of study designs for observational research and clinical trials, two important concerns for the clinical researcher.

This book offers an accessible and up-to-date reference on primate zoonoses.

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.

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Public Health**The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world.

Climatic change plays an integral part in planetary health and is amongst the most important global environmental aspect that has an impact on human health.

Do you find statistics overwhelming and confusing?

This book systematically assesses the risk of 21 major infectious diseases threatening BRI countries.

This new edition of Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials continues the tradition of translating biostatistics in the health sciences literature with clarity and irreverence.

Covering the theory and practice of non-insecticidal control of insect vectors of human disease, this book provides an overview of methods including the use of botanical biocides and insect-derived semiochemicals, with an overall focus on integrated vector management strategies.

Across the last forty years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological sciences, incorporating everything from statistics to the philosophy of science in its aim to study and track the distribution and determinants of health events.

In this age of information, the manipulation, analysis, and interpretation of data have become a fundamental part of professional life; nowhere more so than in the delivery of healthcare.

This is the fifth edition of a very successful textbook on clinical trials methodology, written by recognized leaders who have long and extensive experience in all areas of clinical trials.

Surgical Research: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice, Third Edition is an excellent source book for the young surgical investigator as well as the senior investigator in surgery.

Of the 758 species of hard ticks (family Ixodidae) currently known to science, 137 (18%) are found in the Neotropical Zoogeographic Region, an area that extends from the eastern and western flanks of the Mexican Plateau southward to southern Argentina and Chile and that also includes the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the Galapagos Islands.

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.

There is a unique nutritional commonality developing in research relating to coronary heart disease and cancer.

This book offers a clear and accessible guide to cross-tabulation analysis, transforming a complex subject into an accessible topic.

Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are "e;accidentally"e; transmitted to us.

An essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health More than half the world's population lives in cities -- a figure that will grow to two-thirds by 2030.

This book presents the basic theoretical concepts of dynamical systems with applications in population dynamics.

Describes the metabolic processes that underlie our daily lives and dispels common misconceptions related to diet, nutrition and exercise.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Epidemien und Pandemien pflanzenpathogener Krankheitserreger in ihrer Beziehung zum Menschen" verfügbar.

In the early 1980s, it had only recently been appreciated that what was known of the epidemiology of dementia in the elderly living in the community was just the tip of a large iceberg.

Written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts, Modern Environments and Human Health demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve longstanding questions about the second epidemiological transition.

This book presents the methodology and applications of a range of important topics in statistics, and is designed for graduate students in Statistics and Biostatistics and for medical researchers.

Social Capital and Health discusses social capital-a concept that originated in the social sciences-and its application to the field of public health.

The aim of this book is to bridge the gap between standard textbook models and a range of models where the dynamic structure of the data manifests itself fully.

An in-depth review of an extensive humanitarian post-earthquake relief program, exploring how it helped to modernize disaster mental health.

THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater.

This practical and thorough book explains when and how to use models and techniques for the analysis of competing risks and intermediate states.

As the obesity epidemic widens to all age groups and nations, chronic conditions increase in frequency, and populations grow in number, the costs of treatment will exhaust future health care resources.

A NEW AND ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR THE PRACTICE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTHThe CDC Field Epidemiology Manual is a definitive guide to investigating acute public health events on the ground and in real time.

Despite adults' best preventive efforts, childhood obesity is on the rise in most areas of the world, and with it the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and other formerly adult-onset conditions.

Unique coverage of proteomic and glycomic approaches to better distinguish highly dangerous pathogens, as well as using these to explore novel treatment and prevention options.

This work started out quite modestly as an investigation into the geographic distribution of cerebrovascular disease.

The alarm sounded by Canada's confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has reaffirmed the exigency of establishing improved safeguards and more aggressive surveillance protocols in North America and around the world.

Nonpharmacological treatments include a wide variety of treatments such as surgery, technical procedures, implantable and non-implantable devices, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, and behavioral interventions.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recognized genomics as a priority area in public health education.

The book is the first one published exclusively on the field of nutritional epidemiology of breast cancer.

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 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.

The 18 research articles of this volume discuss the major themes that have emerged from mathematical and statistical research in the epidemiology of HIV.