Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.

The aim of this book is to equip biostatisticians and other quantitative scientists with the necessary skills, knowledge, and habits to collaborate effectively with clinicians in the healthcare field.

This well-organized and clearly written text has a unique focus on methods of identifying the joint effects of genes and environment on disease patterns.

The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries.

The aim of our book is to describe the latest developments on aging research methodology , building upon previous editions, and updating the contents.

An accessible practical introduction to epidemiology in medical research.

When an accident involves many people and when its consequences are many and serious, we speak of a disaster.

"e;The OHE Compendium of Health Statistics"e; is the one-stop statistical source specially designed for easy use by anyone interested in the UK health care sector and the NHS.

It is an inescapable fact that causation, both generally (in populations), and specifically (in individuals), cannot be observed.

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

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.

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.

International and Life Course Aspects of COVID-19 describes the nuances and international variations of COVID-19 in different populations and age groups.

This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events.

This book deals with randomly moving objects and their spreading.

In the past, disease pattern mapping depended on census tracts based on political units, such as states and counties.

Authored by Bengt Kallen, professor emeritus in embryology at Lund University in Sweden.

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

Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology compiles t- oretical and practical contributions of experts in the analysis of infectious disease epidemics in a single volume.

A Historical Introduction to Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Seminal Papers in Epidemiology offers step-by-step help on how to navigate the important historical papers on the subject, beginning in the 18th century.

Acinetobacter details the clinical aspects of this bacterium responsible for many infections in hospitalized patients.

This book introduces all common errors in medical science fields and the ways to control them.

A readable, digestible introduction to essential theory and wealth of applications, with a vast set of examples and numerous exercises.

This straightforward primer in basic statistics and epidemiology emphasises their practical use in healthcare and public health, providing understanding of essential topics such as study design, data analysis and statistical methods used in the execution of medical research.

Emerging infectious diseases are often due to environmental disruption, which exposes microbes to a different niche that selects for new virulence traits and facilitates transmission between animals and humans.

Effectively Assess Intervention Options for Controlling Infectious DiseasesOur experiences with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and Ebola virus disease (EVD) remind us of the continuing need to be vigilant against the emergence of new infectious diseases.

Power and Sample Size in R guides the reader through power and sample size calculations for a wide variety of study outcomes and designs and illustrates their implementation in R software.

Six Sigma in the Pharmaceutical Industry is the first book to introduce the fundamentals of Six Sigma, examine control chart theory and practice, and explain the concept of variation management and reduction applied specifically to the pharmaceutical industry.

THE PLAGUE YEARS Mankind has always been fascinated by "e;origins,"e; and biologists are no exception.

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health.

This volume is comprised of papers presented at the Third International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, held September 9-11, 1987, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book PrizeThe Zika virus is devastating lives and communities.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview on developmental origins of health and disease regarding various factors related to the origins of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) from early life.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa.

Medical Product Safety Evaluation: Biological Models and Statistical Methods presents cutting-edge biological models and statistical methods that are tailored to specific objectives and data types for safety analysis and benefit-risk assessment.

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

This authoritative handbook reviews the most widely-used methods for studying the use and abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs.

Encyclopedic in breadth, yet practical and concise, Medical Biostatistics, Fourth Edition focuses on the statistical aspects ofmedicine with a medical perspective, showing the utility of biostatistics as a tool to manage many medical uncertainties.

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.

This concise, conceptually rich, and accessible book is a rallying cry for a return to the study and discussion of epidemiologic theory: what it is, why it matters, how it has changed over time, and its implications for improving population health and promoting health equity.

Health care needs assessment provides information to plan, negotiate and change services for the better, and to improve health in other ways.

The definitive reference for travel medicine, updated for 2020!

Strategic decision-making focusing on economics is the fundamental requirement to generate efficiency and improve productivity in any manufacturing environment.

Shattered Dreams?

The application of evolutionary biology addresses a wide range of practical problems in medicine, agriculture, the environment, and society.

A practical guide to network meta-analysis with examples and code In the evaluation of healthcare, rigorous methods of quantitative assessment are necessary to establish which interventions are effective and cost-effective.