Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Presenting the most up-to-date and authoritative reference on the risks and risk-prevention strategies of blood transfusions, Blood Safety and Surveillance compiles a breadth of information on the reactions, immunological complications, and potential for disease transmission related to blood transfusions in a broad context.

Significant advances in the evaluation and use of geographic information have had a major effect on key elements of public health.

This comprehensive, definitive, and long overdue reference deals specifically with all the manifestations of latex intolerance including irritation, allergic contact dermatitis, and contact urticaria.

Statistical Concepts and Applications in Clinical Medicine presents a unique, problem-oriented approach to using statistical methods in clinical medical practice through each stage of the clinical process, including observation, diagnosis, and treatment.

In the past decade there has been a rapid increase in waterborne outbreaks of disease associated with viral and protozoan agents, normally in drinking waters that were found to be microbially safe using the Coliform Index.

Satellite imagery and data are widely used in public health surveillance to provide early warning of disease outbreaks and for averting pandemics.

This handbook summarizes the fast-moving world of research into prevention of cancer.

Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions---areas where the unexpected can occur and where Western medical capabilities are often unavailable.

Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions---areas where the unexpected can occur and where Western medical capabilities are often unavailable.

In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that arise in the context of cancer science and medicine.

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.

Across the last forty years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological sciences, incorporating everything from statistics to the philosophy of science in its aim to study and track the distribution and determinants of health events.

Across the last forty years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological sciences, incorporating everything from statistics to the philosophy of science in its aim to study and track the distribution and determinants of health events.

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

In recent years, species and ecosystems have been threatened by many anthropogenic factors manifested in local and global declines of populations and species.

Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are "e;accidentally"e; transmitted to us.

This book is the definitive guide to field epidemiology- the application of epidemiologic methods to unexpected health problems when a rapid, on-site investigation is necessary.

Worldwide economic constraints on health care systems have highlighted the importance of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health policy.

Change is constant in everyday life.

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

Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis are the cornerstones of evidence-based medicine.

In the summer of 1629, John Winthrop described a series of epidemics that devastated Native American populations along the eastern seaboard of New England as a "e;miraculous plague.

Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases.

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.

The definitive textbook on the subject, offering a core curriculum that addresses the epidemiology of major reproductive and perinatal outcomes.

In this innovative new book, Steve Selvin provides readers with a clear understanding of intermediate biostatistical methods without advanced mathematics or statistical theory (for example, no Bayesian statistics, no causal inference, no linear algebra and only a slight hint of calculus).

Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are "e;accidentally"e; transmitted to us.

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.

Change is constant in everyday life.

Using real data from published sources, this engaging and lucid casebook shows how statistical tools can be used to analyze important epidemiologic issues.

This concise, conceptually rich, and accessible book is a rallying cry for a return to the study and discussion of epidemiologic theory: what it is, why it matters, how it has changed over time, and its implications for improving population health and promoting health equity.

According to the World Health Organization's 2008 GLOBOCAN report, 64% of global cancer deaths -- and 56% of cancer cases -- were registered in countries in Africa, Asia, or Latin America.

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

Public health faces critical challenges ranging from outbreaks of new and old pathogens to the threat of bioterrorism and the impact of lifestyle and environmental changes on health.

This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health.

Neuroepidemiology is the epidemiologic study of neurological conditions.

What are the goals of health promotion and the most apropriate means of achieving them?

The previous edition of this useful text on epidemiologic methods for studying injuries and evaluating interventions to prevent them provides specific objectives for research in the various stages of injury control planning and implementation, including the types of data needed to reach the objectives.

In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter.

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

The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "e;scientific truth"e; for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true.

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

This well-organized and clearly written text has a unique focus on methods of identifying the joint effects of genes and environment on disease patterns.

Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century.

Population health encompasses traditional public health and preventive medicine but emphasizes the full range of health determinants affecting the entire population rather than only ill or high-risk individuals.

The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health.

Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis are the cornerstones of evidence-based medicine.

Since the first edition of this highly acclaimed text was published in 1992, much new knowledge has been gained about the role of genetic factors in common adult diseases, and we now have a better understanding of the molecular processes involved in genetic susceptibility and diseases mechanisms.

The basis for much of medical public health practice comes from epidemiological research.

This is the first comprehensive text on the methodological issues in epidemiologic research on infectious diseases.