Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners.

An accessible overview of the challenges in tackling AMR, and the economic and policy responses of the multidisciplinary ''One Health'' approach.

A Statistical Approach to Genetic Epidemiology After studying statistics and mathematics at the University of Munich and obtaining his doctoral degree from the University of Dortmund, Andreas Ziegler received the Johann-Peter-S ssmilch-Medal of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology for his post-doctoral work on Model Free Linkage Analysis of Quantitative Traits in 1999.

The truth is, few people know the first thing about clinical research.

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

This text introduces students to the principles and practice of health promotion in Australian and international public health contexts.

This textbook offers a comprehensive theory of medical decision making under uncertainty, combining informative test theory with the expected utility hypothesis.

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities.

Studying human migratory patterns can help us make sense of evolution, biology, linguistics, and so much more.

Conservation medicine is an emerging discipline, focussing on the intersection of ecosystem health, animal health, and human health.

In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions.

This text atlas focuses on the pathology and molecular genetics of sudden cardiac death in the young and in athletes, presenting the state of the art in the field as the basis for development and implementation of more effective prevention strategies, including, ultimately, molecular therapy that will cure the underlying biological defect.

This book provides accessible treatment to state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing longitudinal studies.

Traditional epidemiology coursework is centered on the design and analysis of disease control.

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.

Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government's initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots.

Hybrid Frequentist/Bayesian Power and Bayesian Power in Planning Clinical Trials provides a practical introduction to unconditional approaches to planning randomised clinical trials, particularly aimed at drug development in the pharmaceutical industry.

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

This highly popular introduction to confidence intervals has been thoroughly updated and expanded.

Although women were understudied in the early years of the epidemic, research and practice devoted to understanding and ameliorating the effects of the AIDS epidemic have begun in recent years.

This book is intended to serve as a reference for professionals in the medical device industry, particularly those seeking to learn from practical examples and case studies.

A Course in Large Sample Theory is presented in four parts.

This book provides a collection of quantitative procedures in common use in we selected may be pharmacology and related disciplines.

Ein Buch für Frauen und Männer, in den mittleren bis höheren Lebensjahren, für die die Prostata des Mannes plötzlich und unerwartet ein wichtiges körperliches Thema sein wird.

This book addresses how coping with the pandemic has been shaped by the interplay between cognition and emotion.

The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades.

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.

This volume is comprised of papers presented at the Third International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, held September 9-11, 1987, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

By the mid-twentieth century, smallpox had vanished from North America and Europe but continued to persist throughout Africa, Asia, and South America.

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications MATHEMATICAL APPROACHES FOR EMERGING AND REEMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES: MODELS, AND THEORY METHODS is based on the proceedings of a successful one week workshop.

The first edition of this book gained recognition as the definitive textbook of diabetes epidemiology.

This text uses a case-study approach to present core principles of biochemistry and molecular biology in the context of human disease.

The aim of health protection is to prevent and manage outbreaks of communicable and environmental diseases, and to make us better at responding to emergencies and disasters.

This fully revised and updated second edition is an essential introduction to inferential statistics.

Epidemiology has long played a critical role in investigating outbreaks of foodborne illness and in identifying the microbial pathogens associated with such illness.

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

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Disruptive technologies are gaining importance in healthcare systems and health informatics.

This text is intended for those who wish to understand the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease.

The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.

This edited collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the key health challenges faced by individuals, communities, and governments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Six Sigma in the Pharmaceutical Industry is the first book to introduce the fundamentals of Six Sigma, examine control chart theory and practice, and explain the concept of variation management and reduction applied specifically to the pharmaceutical industry.

Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences provides a compendium of statistical approaches for decision making, ranging from graphical methods and classical procedures through computationally intensive bootstrap strategies to advanced empirical likelihood techniques.

As the drug abuse epidemic evolves, so do the tools needed to understand and treat it.

Written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts, Modern Environments and Human Health demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve longstanding questions about the second epidemiological transition.

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.