Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Alcohol is one of the major risk factors for negative health outcomes worldwide.

Emerging Infectious Diseases Emerging Infectious Diseases offers an introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, focusing on significant illnesses found in various regions of the world.

The purpose of this book is to present methods for developing, evaluating and maintaining rater-mediated assessment systems.

Among the various theories proposed to account for the process of aging, the free radical theory is of practical interest since it includes the possibility of retarding this process by administrating natural or synthetic antioxidants and free radical scavengers.

Le 20 mars 1996, Stephen Dorrel, ministre britannique de la Santé, prend la parole à la Chambre des communes devant une assistance d’abord indifférente, puis ébahie.

Recognised as the most influential publication in the field, ARM facilitates deep understanding of the Rasch model and its practical applications.

This book covers a wide range of topics on the role of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data for healthcare applications and deals with the ethical issues and concerns associated with it.

Statistical concepts provide scientific framework in experimental studies, including randomized controlled trials.

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health.

Making Connections: Geography and Drug Addiction Geography involves making connections - connections in our world among people and places, cultures, human activities, and natural processes.

Since 1945, "e;The Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics"e; has been an important event in the statistics profession.

A thorough treatment of the statistical methods used to analyze doubly truncated data In The Statistical Analysis of Doubly Truncated Data, an expert team of statisticians delivers an up-to-date review of existing methods used to deal with randomly truncated data, with a focus on the challenging problem of random double truncation.

Theory of illness causation is an important issue in all biomedical sciences, and solid etiological explanations are needed in order to develop therapeutic approaches in medicine and preventive interventions in public health.

This book is about mental health in Bangladesh.

This practical reference guide from experts in the field details why and how to establish successful antibiotic stewardship programs.

This book on investigative electrocardiography is addressed to investigators who are using electrocardiology as a research tool in epidemiological or clinical research or in investigations on possible adverse responses of new pharmacological agents.

This highly motivating introduction to statistical learning machines explains underlying principles in nontechnical language, using many examples and figures.

This volume on Infectious Diseases in an Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST) addresses the needs of health care providers and policy makers as well as scientists and engineers.

While many terms relate to One Health, the idea remains the same: to think outside a chosen area of specialty and work collaboratively as part of a team to improve health status around the world.

This fascinating collection shines a social epidemiological spotlight on the key public health issues affecting sub-Saharan Africa today.

This textbook focuses on the nascent field of Immunoepidemiology that addresses how differences in immune responses among individuals affect the epidemiology of infectious diseases, cancer, hypersensitivity, and autoimmunity.

This straightforward primer in basic statistics and epidemiology emphasises their practical use in healthcare and public health, providing understanding of essential topics such as study design, data analysis and statistical methods used in the execution of medical research.

The book illustrates how biostatistics may numerically summarize human genetic epidemiology using R, and may be used successfully to solveproblems in quantitative Genetic Epidemiology Biostatistics for Human Genetic Epidemiology provides statistical methodologies and R recipes for human genetic epidemiologic problems.

A successful vaccine for the prevention and/or immunotherapy against HIV/AIDS is one of the prominent challenges of the 21st century.

The lifestyles and socio-economic status that are prevalent in regions of the world with limited resources form the background for the unique features of neoplastic diseases in these areas, where the majority of the world population lives.

Open Access Data is emerging as a source for cutting edge scholarship.

The early 2020s marked the fortieth anniversary of the first confirmed cases of AIDS and a new wave of historical interest in the ongoing epidemic.

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

Advanced Statistics in Regulatory Critical Clinical Initiatives is focused on the critical clinical initiatives introduced by the 21st Century Cure Act passed by the United States Congress in December 2016.

Basic Statistics and Epidemiology is a straightforward primer in basic statistics that emphasizes its practical use in epidemiology and public health, providing an understanding of essential topics such as study design, data analysis and statistical methods used in the execution of medical research.

Former Ontario Chief Coroner James Young and infectious disease expert Dick Zoutman recount their efforts to contain the mysterious new disease.

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

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

This book deals with randomly moving objects and their spreading.

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

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This book is the first exclusively devoted to the systematic synthesis of diagnostic test accuracy studies.

In most countries, problematic drug use is dealt with primarily as a criminal justice issue, rather than a health issue.

This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introduction to eurrent demographie methods.

Incidence and mortality of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD) vary considerably among races, populations and ethnic groups.

This book introduces recent wireless technologies and their impact on recent trends, applications, and opportunities.

Whether you call them work-related upper limb disorders (WRULDs), cumulative trauma disorders (CTDS), or occupational overuse syndromes (OOSs), these conditions are a cause of pain, disability and suffering to workers worldwide.

A practical guide to analysing partially observed data.

This book recalls masking efforts in response to the Spanish flu epidemic.

This volume is a summary of material presented in the course given in the International School of Phannacology on "e;Drug Epidemiology and Post-Marketing Surveillance"e; between September 27 and October 8, 1990, at the "e;Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture"e; in Erice, Sicily.

Health Impact Assessment is a policy-support instrument and approach that seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies on population health.

This text brings together important ideas on the model-based approach to sample survey, which has been developed over the last twenty years.

Although standard mixed effects models are useful in a range of studies, other approaches must often be used in correlation with them when studying complex or incomplete data.

Clinical Infectious Disease is the only comprehensive single-volume reference on clinical infectious disease for the busy medical practitioner.