Epidemiology and Medical statistics

The COVID-19 outbreak and response has been characterized by institutional missteps, media misinformation, and economic and social upheavals.

Acinetobacter details the clinical aspects of this bacterium responsible for many infections in hospitalized patients.

Clinical Data Quality Checks for CDISC Compliance using SAS is the first book focused on identifying and correcting data quality and CDISC compliance issues with real-world innovative SAS programming techniques such as Proc SQL, metadata and macro programming.

The HIV pandemic continues to levy a heavy burden on the human race world-wide.

In March 1983 the Secretary of State for Welfare, Health and Cultural Affairs appointed the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios (STG).

Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is rising, and it holds tremendous potential for more accurate findings and novel solutions to complicated medical issues.

In this Information Age, the practices of clinical medicine should no longer be based on what clinical doctors actively know.

Statistical Methods in Healthcare In recent years the number of innovative medicinal products and devices submitted and approved by regulatory bodies has declined dramatically.

Over 50% of known flaviviruses have been associated with human disease.

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

R is a rapidly evolving lingua franca of graphical display and statistical analysis of experiments from the applied sciences.

This authoritative work is an essential reference guide and tool for oncologists, primary care physicians, the research community, and students with an interest in reducing the burden of cancer.

This monograph on measurement error and misclassification covers a broad range of problems and emphasizes unique features in modeling and analyzing problems arising from medical research and epidemiological studies.

Written by experts that include originators of some key ideas, chapters in the Handbook of Multiple Testing cover multiple comparison problems big and small, with guidance toward error rate control and insights on how principles developed earlier can be applied to current and emerging problems.

The first coherent introduction to the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution and its contributions in statistical theory and computing in R.

This volume presents infectious diseases modeled mathematically, taking seasonality and changes in population behavior into account, using a switched and hybrid systems framework.

Over the last two decades, attempts to control the problem of tuberculosis have become increasingly more complex, as countries adopt and adapt to evolving global TB strategies.

Medicinal Foods as Potential Therapies for Type-2 Diabetes and Associated Diseases: The Chemical and Pharmacological Basis of their Action focuses on active pharmacological principles that modulate diabetes, associated risk factors, complications and the mechanism of action of widely used anti-diabetic herbal plants-rather than just the nutritional composition of certain foods.

Defines an approach to mental healthcare focused on achieving international equity in coverage, options and outcomes.

Cost-effectiveness analysis is becoming an increasingly important tool for decision making in the health systems.

Waisted: The Biology of Body Fat outlines the fascinating, often misunderstood and sometimes controversial biology of fat, otherwise known as adipose tissue.

It is quite common in a randomized clinical trial (RCT) to encounter patients who do not comply with their assigned treatment.

Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals, Fourth Edition bridges the gap between established knowledgebase and new advances in metal toxicology to provide one essential reference for all those involved in the field.

Analysis of Correlated Data with SAS and R: 4th edition presents an applied treatment of recently developed statistical models and methods for the analysis of hierarchical binary, count and continuous response data.

Firefighters are taught to battle flames.

"e;Biomedical Imaging: Principles and Advancements"e; offers a captivating exploration of the intricate landscapes within the human body, revealing the transformative power of biomedical imaging.

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

The clinical trial is "e;the most definitive tool for evaluation of the applicability of clinical research.

Stigma leads to poorer health.

A comprehensive, accessible summary of the latest research in heart disease risk factors Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is a major cause of early death and disability across the world.

Analyzing Health Data in R for SAS Users is aimed at helping health data analysts who use SAS accomplish some of the same tasks in R.

An evidence-based analysis of the opportunities and challenges of moving towards more person-centred health systems.

At its core, epidemiology is concerned with changes in health and disease.

Statistical Genetics is an advanced textbook focusing on conducting genome-wide linkage and association analysis in order to identify the genes responsible for complex behaviors and diseases.

Medical Product Safety Evaluation: Biological Models and Statistical Methods presents cutting-edge biological models and statistical methods that are tailored to specific objectives and data types for safety analysis and benefit-risk assessment.

Since the emergence of 2022's monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak, it has been the heading of news and research articles that MPXV is being involving non-endemic areas after about its 80-year presence in endemic areas.

An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness implementing approaches developed previously by the cognitive scientist Bernard Baars and the philosopher Fred Dretske.

"e;Comprehensive and comprehensible, but also encouraging -- informed by the hope and belief that informed its creation.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

This volume focuses on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks (GCBRs), a special class of infectious disease outbreaks or pandemics in which the combined capacity of the world's private and government resources becomes severely strained.

Physical activity clearly is associated with decreased risk of many chronic diseases, as well as with longer life.

This book offers a systematic introduction to Budd-Chiari syndrome, a rare but life-threatening vascular disorder of the liver, which refers to obstructions at any site from the hepatic veins to the suprahepatic inferior vena cava.

Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the application of epidemiological principles to the delivery of health care services and management of health care organizations.

It humanizes high-level debates over indicators and data in development aid, showing how they are used to make life-or-death decisions.