Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Psychotic disorders are a major public health challenge.

Longitudinal studies often incur several problems that challenge standard statistical methods for data analysis.

The demand for health information continues to increase, but the ability of health professionals to provide it clearly remains variable.

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

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are longitudinal data that are stored in a database that captures current and new patients at different points in time.

Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level.

This is the first comprehensive book that provides accessible, international knowledge for practitioners, students and academics about social work in health emergencies and spans fields of practice across world regions with particular reference to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book surveys the diagnosis, genetics, screening, prevention and management of familial breast cancer.

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

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life globally through virus-related mortality and morbidity and the social and economic impacts of actions taken to stop the virus' spread.

Essentials of Research Methodology and Biostatistics-A Comprehensive Guide for Health Care Professionals is a precisely written textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate medical, dental, nursing, physiotherapy, clinical psychology and other allied health care profession students.

This book focuses on waterborne pathogens and significant diseases occurring along major rivers around the globe, including key examples like the Amazonas, Mekong River and Nile.

Key Questions in Environmental Toxicology is designed as a self-study tool for undergraduate students.

Sharing biological resources—critical for new medicines and vaccines—has declined as countries and scientists dispute rights over research.

This edited volume contains a selection of chapters that are an outgrowth of the - ropean Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB05, Dresden, Germany, July 2005).

The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology.

Over the past two decades increasing interest has emerged in the contribu- tions that the social sciences might make to the epidemiological study of patterns of health and disease.

Contains all you need to know to understand statistics in medicine.

Cannabis Physiopathology and Detection features an outstanding collection of contributions from leading researchers around the world.

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

Coronaviruses can cause illness, severe disease, and death; for example, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and COVID-19.

Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations and industry leaders benefit from nurses' informatics talent - essential skills, knowledge, wisdom, and contributions - to add immense value in the current and future healthcare technology landscape.

For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and loss.

Deep learning can provide more accurate results compared to machine learning.

This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research that takes advantage of novel methodology and what we have learned from innovative applications.

Substance misuse and addictions are a public health issue.

Computation intelligence (CI) paradigms, including artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computing techniques, and intelligent agents, form the basis of making clinical decisions.

Congenital malformations are worldwide occurrences striking in every condition of society.

In the struggle against vector-borne diseases, it is critical that we bridge the gap among vector control workers on the ground (practitioners), public health planners and administrators, and (academic) medical entomologists.

Despite the growing interest in the role of psychological trauma in the genesis of psychiatric disorders, few volumes have addressed these issues from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.

Cardiovascular Diseases: Genetic Susceptibility, Environmental Factors and Their Interaction covers the special heritability characteristics and identifying genetic and environmental contributions to cardiovascular health.

Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between.

Linking Neuroscience and Behavior in COVID-19 examines the impact of the virus and pandemic on behavior and mental health.

This book provides a selection of modern and sophisticated methodologies for the analysis of large and complex univariate and multivariate categorical data.

A comprehensive overview of the effects of trichloroethylene toxicity caused by real-life exposure levels highlighting how exposure to trichloroethylene may contribute to the etiology of several idiopathic human diseases.

Mendelian Randomization: Methods For Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants provides thorough coverage of the methods and practical elements of Mendelian randomization analysis.

This book presents a unified and up-to-date introduction to ROC methodologies, covering both diagnosis (classification) and prediction.

POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE formalizes an emerging discipline at the crossroads of social and medical sciences, demography, and economics--an emerging approach to population studies that represents a seismic shift in how traditional health sciences measure and observe health events.

In Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet, the leading-edge innovators in digital health applications, global thought leaders, and multinational, cooperative research initiatives are woven together against the backdrop of health equity and policy-setting bodies, such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization.

Serious congenital malformations are a major contributor to the infant death rate worldwide.

Health Security Intelligence introduces readers to the world of health security, to threats like COVID-19, and to the many other incarnations of global health security threats and their implications for intelligence and national security.

This timely new textbook lays bare the ways in which disease and disaster can turn politicians into global leaders or national liabilities.

Correctly understanding and using medical statistics is a key skill for all medical students and health professionals.

In the last quarter century, advances in mass spectrometry (MS) have been at the forefront of efforts to map complex biological systems including the human metabolome, proteome, and microbiome.

Healthcare Solutions Using Machine Learning and Informatics covers novel and innovative solutions for healthcare that apply machine learning and biomedical informatics technology.

Evaluating the strength or persuasiveness of epidemiologic evidence is inherently challenging, both for those new to the field and for experienced researchers.