Epidemiology and Medical statistics

The book provides a comprehensive examination of pancreatic cancer, integrating global insights with an African-focused perspective.

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.

The new edition of Biostatistics for Clinical and Public Health Research is an introductory workbook to provide not only a concise overview of key statistical concepts but also step-by-step guidance on how to apply these through a range of software packages, including R, SAS, and Stata.

This highly motivating introduction to statistical learning machines explains underlying principles in nontechnical language, using many examples and figures.

This highly motivating introduction to statistical learning machines explains underlying principles in nontechnical language, using many examples and figures.

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

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

Concise, accessible summary of current knowledge about challenging behaviour, fully updated with expanded sections on emergence and prevention strategies.

Concise, accessible summary of current knowledge about challenging behaviour, fully updated with expanded sections on emergence and prevention strategies.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative force in smart healthcare.

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

Easy access to simple, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts.

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

A comprehensive and systematic review of physical and mental health co-morbidities in people with intellectual disability.

Using international case studies to critique recent health and aid policies, this book presents strategies to create fairer health services.

Easy access to simple, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts.

Analyses and assesses the techniques of outcome measurement and looks at ways it should be implemented.

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

A comprehensive and systematic review of physical and mental health co-morbidities in people with intellectual disability.

A comprehensive and critical review of literature regarding the relationships between physical illness and drugs of abuse.

Focuses on a shift away from traditional clinical preoccupations towards new priorities of supporting the patient.

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

Hands-on guide to the R system for data analysis for scientists, students and practising statisticians.

This book teaches researchers how to evaluate health interventions and simplifies the process of analyzing data.

Describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content, giving an insight into which statistics to believe - and why.

Describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content, giving an insight into which statistics to believe - and why.

Focuses on a shift away from traditional clinical preoccupations towards new priorities of supporting the patient.

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

For researchers, clinicians, and other health professionals looking to select, develop, or apply medical tests.

A second edition of the easy-to-use standard text guiding biomedical researchers in the use of advanced statistical methods.

A concise guide to establishing, developing and evaluating modern mental health services.

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to implement treatments to help smokers give up their habit in a group environment.

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

This book offers an approach to understanding late-life depression, using a series of case studies with commentaries.

For readers with a minimal background in statistics, this text shows how to analyze and interpret epidemiological and medical survival data.

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

A practical guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research.

Describes how fairness in the delivery and access to health care can be achieved.

A comprehensive, balanced account of the theory of statistical inference, its main ideas and controversies.

Brings together the insights of genetic and molecular science to protect and improve public health.

This is a practical introduction to multilevel analysis, written for non-mathematicians.

A practical introduction to secondary data analysis, with a list of major sources in the United States.

An accessible non-technical introduction to the terminology of medical statistics.

An important reference detailing the distribution, prevalence and incidence of vector- and rodent-borne diseases in Europe, USA and Canada.

Hands-on guide to the R system for data analysis for scientists, students and practising statisticians.

This book is a synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, interventions, demography, and associated risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality.

Easy access to simple, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts.

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This book is an introduction to public health as a discipline and a critique of its recent development.