Epidemiology and Medical statistics

This book provides an overview and critical discussion of the main philosophical methods that have dominated the field of bioethics since its origins in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

An important factor that affects the duration, complexity and cost of a clinical trial is the endpoint used to study the treatment's efficacy.

Ce livre, écrit comme un récit, mais aussi comme un journal, est le résultat de l’étude quotidienne depuis janvier 2020 de tous les cas et de tous les morts du Covid-19 rapportés par les différents pays du monde.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems facing the United States today.

Medical treatments designed to help people can also be harmful or fatal.

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

New health systems exist today thanks to the changing nature of diseases as a result of the integration of new technologies and new approaches in care giving and the management of healthcare systems.

This book analyzes the factors that have sparked pandemics over the past 2000 years, from the Antonine Plague to COVID-19.

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The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a generic measure of health effect that can be used in cost-effectiveness analysis as an alternative to the quality-adjusted life year (QALY).

Ticks of the family Ixodidae, commonly known as hard ticks, occur worldwide and are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of agents pathogenic to humans.

Our contemporary division of the progress of time should be delineated as B.

The Statistical Analysis of Multivariate Failure Time Data: A Marginal Modeling Approach provides an innovative look at methods for the analysis of correlated failure times.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the relationship between obesity and cancer.

First published in 1986, this landmark text is the definitive guide to clinical trials, written by one of the leading experts in the field.

This book guides through the fascinating world of viruses and makes readers enjoy science in an accessible way.

This book presents a 360-degree picture of the world of insects and explores how their existence affects our lives: the "e;good, bad, and ugly"e; aspects of their interactions with humankind.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention.

Cut Through the Complexities of Medical Studies!

Since publication of the first three editions of this hugely successful book, systematic methods of critical appraisal have been accepted as central to healthcare provision, both in critical applications and in a wider health services and community perspective.

This volume investigates the links between the incidence of diet-related cancers and dietary patterns within Europe.

This book effectively exposes and illustrates the ideas and tools for optimal healthcare decisions taken from evidence.

Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems facing the United States today.

This book is based on an international meeting organized by the University of Tokyo and the University of Rochester, and is published as one belonging to the series of Rochester International Conferences in Environmental Toxicity.

Data Science for Infectious Disease Data Analytics: An Introduction with R provides an overview of modern data science tools and methods that have been developed specifically to analyze infectious disease data.

Health economics is concerned with the study of the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions.

This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics.

This book comprehensively reviews various vector-borne diseases and their control methods.

Meta-analysis is the application of statistics to combine results from multiple studies and draw appropriate inferences.

This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.

This book, now in an extensively revised second edition, provides an exhaustive review of the state of the art in the management of prostate cancer, from screening to treatment, with emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach.

This book shares the experimental findings and views in current multidisciplinary medical science combining both basic and applied research aimed at resolving problematic health issues.

This cutting-edge reference book compiles standard operating procedures, protocols, and applications of next-generation sequencing (NGS).

Maintaining a practical perspective, Bioequivalence and Statistics in Clinical Pharmacology, Second Edition explores statistics used in day-to-day clinical pharmacology work.

A thoroughly updated new edition of the essential reference on the design, practice, and analysis of clinical trials Clinical Trials Dictionary: Terminology and Usage Recommendations, Second Edition presents clear, precise, meticulously detailed entries on all aspects of modern-day clinical trials.

This book tackles the difficult challenge of uncovering the pathogenic cause, epidemiological mechanics and broader historical impacts of an extremely deadly third-century ancient Roman pandemic.

A complete guide to understanding cluster randomised trials Written by two researchers with extensive experience in the field, this book presents a complete guide to the design, analysis and reporting of cluster randomised trials.

This book provides salient information on all aspects of influenza/flu viruses affecting animals and humans.

Teaches Students How to Perform Spatio-Temporal Analyses within Epidemiological StudiesSpatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology is the first book of its kind to specifically address the interface between environmental epidemiology and spatio-temporal modeling.

This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times.

This book provides an up-to-date review of fasciolosis, a disease caused by Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica, including its biology, transmission, epidemiology, host distribution, economic impact, and novel approaches for its diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

An important role of diagnostic medicine research is to estimate and compare the accuracies of diagnostic tests.

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

A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders examines the interplay of social and biological factors in the production of a wide range of mental disorders throughout life, from the peri-natal period through to old age.

Batch Effects and Noise in Microarray Experiments: Sources and Solutions looks at the issue of technical noise and batch effects in microarray studies and illustrates how to alleviate such factors whilst interpreting the relevant biological information.

To date, much of the empirical work in social epidemiology has demonstrated the existence of health inequalities along a number of axes of social differentiation.