Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Now in its second edition, this book brings multivariate statistics to graduate-level practitioners, making these analytical methods accessible without lengthy mathematical derivations.

This book is a joint package of a practical manual on how to undertake meta-analysis in medicine together with an accompanying CD-ROM.

This book makes an original contribution in addressing contemporary critical discussions and reflections on international health policies, strategies, programmes, systems, diseases, disasters, and public health issues.

The increased use of non-inferiority analysis has been accompanied by a proliferation of research on the design and analysis of non-inferiority studies.

This book discusses the why and how of each step of data-based medical research that can provide basic information to emerging researchers and medical graduate students who write theses or publish articles.

Root disease epidemics, because much of the activity takes place in soil and out of sight, pose special challenges to growers who seek to manage them and to scientists who study them.

This important book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding vaccine hesitancy, as well as the nuances of antivaccination claims.

First published in 1963, Advances in Parasitology contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews in all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology.

Dieses Buch liefert eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die Grundlagen der Datenauswertung mit dem freien Statistikpaket R.

In 2014, a 28-year old British doctor found himself co-running the Ebola isolation unit in Sierra Leone's main hospital after the doctor in charge had been killed by the virus.

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This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context.

Women and Health is a comprehensive reference which addresses health issues affecting women of all ages--adolescence through maturity.

The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate.

This textbook focuses on the nascent field of Immunoepidemiology that addresses how differences in immune responses among individuals affect the epidemiology of infectious diseases, cancer, hypersensitivity, and autoimmunity.

COVID-19 Management in the Brain and Body describes the management of patients with the novel coronavirus in their varied symptoms.

This book weaves all of these factors together to engage in and promote medical, biomedical and psychosocial interventions, including lifestyle changes, for healthier aging outcomes.

In the past 10 years spirituality and spiritual care have been much debated in professional healthcare literature, highlighting the need for a recognised definition of spiritual care to enable appropriate assessment of, and response to, spiritual issues.

Public health faces critical challenges ranging from outbreaks of new and old pathogens to the threat of bioterrorism and the impact of lifestyle and environmental changes on health.

Public Health Surveillance (PHS) is of primary importance in this era of emerging health threats like Ebola, MERS-CoV, influenza, natural and man-made disasters, and non-communicable diseases.

Since the publication of the first edition, Biostatistics and Epidemiology has attracted loyal readers from across specialty areas in the biomedical community.

Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies.

Diseases have had more influence on us than we realize.

This textbook and guide focuses on methodologies for bias analysis in epidemiology and public health, not only providing updates to the first edition but also further developing methods and adding new advanced methods.

This volume gathers together selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the BIOMAT 2020 International Symposium, which was virtually held on November 1-6, 2020, with an organization staff based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Recognised as the most influential publication in the field, ARM facilitates deep understanding of the Rasch model and its practical applications.

A book for men and women from middle age to advanced years who have suddenly and unexpectedly become confronted with the huge effects that the male prostate can have on the body.

This volume compiles five papers modeling the effects of neoliberal economics on the emergence of Ebola and its aftermath.

Injuries kill and maim millions each year, and seriously impact the lives of countless loved ones.

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

The 1989 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis dramatically demonstrated one of the most important reasons for having the Society - to bring together people with highly diverse backgrounds and disciplines to assess the common problems of societal and individual risks.

Animal welfare has long been recognised as central to the role of the veterinary professional, but this is increasingly aligned with the welfare of humans and the broader environment in which we co-exist.

This book provides a practical guide to analysis of simple and complex method comparison data, using Stata, SAS and R.

Statistical concepts provide scientific framework in experimental studies, including randomized controlled trials.

This invaluable, jargon-free guide to essential medical terminology in an accessible A-Z format is ideal for medical, allied health and biomedical science students and researchers, clinicians and health care practitioners.

Health Protection: Principles and practice is a practical guide for practitioners working at all levels in public health and health protection, including those with a non-specialist background.

We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'.

Bioinformatics for Beginners: Genes, Genomes, Molecular Evolution, Databases and Analytical Tools provides a coherent and friendly treatment of bioinformatics for any student or scientist within biology who has not routinely performed bioinformatic analysis.

La mondialisation est-elle responsable des pandémies ?

Analyzing Health Data in R for SAS Users is aimed at helping health data analysts who use SAS accomplish some of the same tasks in R.

This comprehensive workbook contains a variety of self-assessment methods that allow readers to test their statistical knowledge, put it into practice, and apply it in a medical context, while also providing guidance when critically appraising published literature.

In highlighting how a WHO Public Health Approach (PHA) has been successfully used in developing countries to provide HIV/AIDS patients with antiretroviral therapy (ART), this important book provides a template for how the PHA can be implemented to treat other chronic but non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as well.

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

This book introduces recent wireless technologies and their impact on recent trends, applications, and opportunities.

This graduate-level text provides a survey of the logic and reasoning underpinning statistical analysis, as well as giving a broad-brush overview of the various statistical techniques that play a major role in scientific and social investigations.

This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries.

Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors.

A complex disease involves many etiological and risk factors operating at multiple levels-molecular, cellular, organismal, and environmental.