Epidemiology and Medical statistics

The Advances in Parasitology series contains in-depth reviews on current topics of interest in contemporary parasitology.

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.

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways that obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy.

Collecting and analyzing data on unemployment, inflation, and inequality help describe the complex world around us.

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.

When discussing health, we talk about ailments and afflictions, the potential of modern medicine and the behaviours that affect our health.

Rabies: Basis of the Disease and Its Management, Fourth Edition is an authoritative reference on the current status of rabies, including the virological, clinical, and public health aspects and management recommendations.

Genetic Association Studies is designed for students of public health, epidemiology, and the health sciecnes, covering the main principles of molecular genetics, population genetics, medical genetics, epidemiology and statistics.

Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases.

This textbook on statistics is written for students in medicine, epidemiology, and public health.

Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health is a new book which draws together areas of research in early lifel programming of adult health, with a unique focus on the post-natal period in terms of early life programming particularly the extent to which differences in infant feeding practices can lay an indelible imprint on metabolism and behaviour, and hence affect later function and risk of disease.

Guides You on the Development and Implementation of B-R EvaluationsBenefit-Risk Assessment Methods in Medical Product Development: Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments provides general guidance and case studies to aid practitioners in selecting specific benefit-risk (B-R) frameworks and quantitative methods.

Since the early 2000s, there has been increasing interest within the pharmaceutical industry in the application of Bayesian methods at various stages of the research, development, manufacturing, and health economic evaluation of new health care interventions.

This book covers applications of fractional calculus used for medical and health science.

In the wake of COVID, it's more important than ever to understand epidemics-how they emerge and what we can do to fight back.

The Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication is a comprehensive analysis of spatial theory and the practical methods used to prevent the geographical spread of communicable diseases in humans.

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.

Written with medical statisticians and medical researchers in mind, this intermediate-level reference explores the use of SAS for analyzing medical data.

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.

Covers the fundamentals of case-control studies including important recent developments, with a focus on statistical analysis.

Infectious diseases are an ever present threat to humans.

Simulating the behavior of a human heart, predicting tomorrow's weather, optimizing the aerodynamics of a sailboat, finding the ideal cooking time for a hamburger: to solve these problems, cardiologists, meteorologists, sportsmen, and engineers can count on math help.

Simulating for a crisis is far more than creating a simulation of a crisis situation.

Having an understanding of critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine is a prerequisite to being an effective clinician.

This book offers a radically different perspective on the topic of health inequity.

Sustainability of pension systems, intergeneration fiscal equity under population aging, and accounting for health care benefits for future retirees are examples of problems that cannot be solved without understanding the nature of population forecasts and their uncertainty.

This book discusses the impacts that weather and climate have on human physical health, longevity, and mental wellness, and acts as a guide to the application of meteorological science in health care.

Translates the theory from the science of decision making into clinically useful tools and principles.

Provides a comprehensive review of research evidence on physical diseases in people with schizophrenia.

This handbook provides thorough, in-depth, and well-focused developments of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), natural language processing (NLP), cryptography, and blockchain approaches, along with their applications focused on healthcare systems.

This authoritative work, now in its fourth edition, presents state of the art knowledge on all key aspects of cancer prevention.

Despite the growing interest in the role of psychological trauma in the genesis of psychiatric disorders, few volumes have addressed these issues from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.

Focuses on the prevention and treatment of missing data in longitudinal clinical trials, looking at key principles and explaining analytic methods.

This user-friendly 2003 book explains the techniques and benefits of semiparametric regression in a concise and modular fashion.

Dramatic advances in our understanding of cancer causation have come from epidemiologic and laboratory research, particularly over the past two decades.

Get Up to Speed on Many Types of Adaptive DesignsSince the publication of the first edition, there have been remarkable advances in the methodology and application of adaptive trials.

This book introduces the reader to modern computational and statistical tools for translational epigenomics research.

Here is the first comprehensive cross-disciplinary work to examine the current health situation of our immigrants, successfully integrating the vast literature of diverse fields -- epidemiology, health services research, anthropology, law, medicine, social work, health promotion, and bioethics -- to explore the richness and diversity of the immigrant population from a culturally-sensitive perspective.

The Tutorials in Biostatistics have become a very popular feature of the prestigious Wiley journal, Statistics in Medicine (SIM).

This book examines how the digital revolution has reorganized the model of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues for a continued paradigm shift to digital healthcare.

What is 'digital health'?

As more people worldwide live in cities, increasingly we need to understand how cities and city living affect population health.

In recent decades, there has been enormous growth in biologics research and development, with the accompanying development of biological assays for emerging products.

This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics.

This short, readable 2004 textbook is designed to introduce students to the biology and techniques of agricultural pest and disease vector control.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist die nichtparametrische Statistik rasch und umfassend gewachsen.

Employing critical-systems thinking, this study analyses the evolution of a health system providing universal coverage.