Epidemiology and Medical statistics

This informative book is valuable to a broad spectrum of individuals active in the environmental and health sciences, including chemists, epidemiologists, and mathematics modelers, as well as those involved with measurement and effects of numerous kinds of drinking water contamination and both indoor and ambient air pollution.

Based on findings from a sample of nearly 1,100 Puerto Ricans living in the New York area, this book posits that adhering to traditional cultural values (for example, the family) has the socially desirable consequence of discouraging such deviant behaviors as substance abuse.

This book provides a practical, application-driven guide to using R for public health and health data science, accessible to both beginners and those with some coding experience.

A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians.

This book takes an in-depth look at the emerging technologies that are transforming the way clinicians manage patients, while at the same time emphasizing that the best practitioners use both artificial and human intelligence to make decisions.

From aspects of early trials to complex modeling problems, Advances in Clinical Trial Biostatistics summarizes current methodologies used in the design and analysis of clinical trials.

This work includes a foreword by Jeffrey Koplan, Vice President, Academic Health Affairs, Emory University, Atlanta, Formerly Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Concise Encyclopedia of Biostatistics for Medical Professionals focuses on conceptual knowledge and practical advice rather than mathematical details, enhancing its usefulness as a reference for medical professionals.

Ebola: Clinical Patterns, Public Health Concerns is a concise description and discussion of the Ebola virus and disease.

This timely revision of the authoritative handbook gives a wide range of providers practical insights and strategies for treating cancer survivors' long-term physical and mental health issues.

Highly praised for its broad, practical coverage, the second edition of this popular text incorporated the major statistical models and issues relevant to epidemiological studies.

The book covers the various cell signaling pathways responsible for prostate cancer progression, conventional therapies used for prostate cancer treatment, new emerging therapeutics, and challenges in the treatment of cancer patients.

The disorders induced by iodine deficiency affect at least one billion people.

How to perform and interpret multivariable analysis, using plain language rather than complex derivations.

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In Memoriam of Alfred S.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

The contributions by epidemic modeling experts describe how mathematical models and statistical forecasting are created to capture the most important aspects of an emerging epidemic.

This comprehensive, well-illustrated, and easily accessible book documents the latest research outcomes concerning sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and describes important advances in their prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic?

Real-world evidence (RWE) has been at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovations.

Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health.

Wide-Ranging Coverage of Parametric Modeling in Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects ModelsMixed Effects Models for the Population Approach: Models, Tasks, Methods and Tools presents a rigorous framework for describing, implementing, and using mixed effects models.

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

This book is well-structured book which consists of 31 full chapters.

Analyses how human rights law can overcome constraining approaches to the right to health of irregular migrants.

There are not enough resources in health care systems around the world to fund all technically feasible and potentially beneficial health care interventions.

While biomedical researchers may be able to follow instructions in the manuals accompanying the statistical software packages, they do not always have sufficient knowledge to choose the appropriate statistical methods and correctly interpret their results.

In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique challenge to scientists.

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

Case Studies in Infection Control has 25 cases, each focusing on an infectious disease, which illustrate the critical aspects of infection control and prevention.

The fact that the World Health Organization has declared tuberculosis a "e;global emergency"e; indicates the serious inadequacy of the ways in which the control methods at our disposal are used.

A simple and systematic guide to the planning and performance of investigations concerned with health and disease and with health care Offers researchers help in choosing a topic and to think about shaping objectives and ideas and to link these with the appropriate choice of method Fully updated with new sections on the use of the Web and computer programmes freely available in the planning, performance or analysis of studies

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

Edited by a clinical psychologist who has been on the ground helping to develop psychosocial support for Ebola survivors in one of the hardest-hit regions of West Africa, this book explains the devastating emotional aspects of the epidemic and its impact on survivors and the population in West Africa, families in the diaspora, and people in the United States and other countries.

This book discusses numerical methods for solving partial differential and integral equations, as well as ordinary differential and integral equations, involving fractional differential and integral operators.

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

Cancer is a major healthcare burden across the world and impacts not only the people diagnosed with various cancers but also their families, carers, and healthcare systems.

Statistical methodology is of great importance to medical research and clinical practice.

This edited volume introduces the latest advances in quantitative methods and illustrates ways to apply these methods to important questions in substance use research.

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them.

The statistical study and development of analytic methodology for individualization of treatments is no longer in its infancy.

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.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic threw the world into complete chaos with its rapid and devastating spread.