Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Disaster Epidemiology: Methods and Applications applies the core methods of epidemiological research and practice to the assessment of the short- and long-term health effects of disasters.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of health privacy law, this important volume offers insightful reflection on issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and data protection, as well as analysis in how a range of jurisdictions-including the US, the UK, Europe, South Africa, and Australia-navigate a rapidly developing biomedical environment.

Die Vor- und Nachteile der Hormonersatztherapie (HRT) werden von einer Expertengruppe hinsichtlich der epidemiologischen Beweislage diskutiert.

This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural beliefs, memories of past wars and narratives and actions of the government; 2) a good governance standpoint that exposes lapses in health governance and the general unpreparedness of the government and international community to deal with the outbreak; 3) a scientific research standpoint that looks at the role played by the Sierra Leone's Lassa Fever Research Laboratories as a main hub for the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of communicable diseases in the Mano River Union countries; and 4) an international politics standpoint that examines the development of a new bio-security international apparatus involving a wide range of international actors and institutions.

The new edition of this critically praised text continues to provide the most comprehensive overview of the concepts, methods, and research advances in the field.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) poses a health threat unparalleled in modem times.

Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis explains how to use the empirical likelihood method for right censored survival data.

Rabies remains one of the most important global public health problems worldwide.

This volume gathers together selected peer-reviewed works presented at the BIOMAT 2022 International Symposium, which was virtually held on November 7-11, 2022, with an organization staff based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Based on recollections of patients, interviews with participants in the government programs, available literature and statistics, and records of the Northern Affairs Program, Grygier examines the programs for the Inuit in all parts of Canada.

Data Presentation with SPSS Explained provides students with all the information they need to conduct small scale analysis of research projects using SPSS and present their results appropriately in their reports.

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

"e;Jim Shepard is a fiction writer of peculiar but tantalizing gifts.

'A brilliant expose' - Danny DorlingCovid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy.

Why is information about the coronavirus/COVID-19 so confusing?

In Ghost Map Steven Johnson tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes anaesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa.

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world.

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

This essential presents infectious diseases of humans and animals that occur or can become endemic in Germany and Europe.

Im The Living ProofTHERE IS NO HIV, The Rainbow Warrior, Exposing The Truth About HIV Antibody Testing and the Metaphysics of Self-Healing Through Chakra and Kundalini Awareness is the authors personal story of healing and a journey toward spiritual awakening having transcended the HIV Debacle and Crisis.

"La ENFERMEDAD que CURA".

Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.

This essential presents infectious diseases of humans and animals that occur or can become endemic in Germany and Europe.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEARA TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Revised and updated edition with new chapter reflecting on the impact of Covid-19 two years on, and what come next*Did the UK government really 'follow the science' throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, as it claims?

In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world.

Este libro constituye una nueva visión transdisciplinaria de la epidemiología, en donde se recoge la permanente refelxión y práctica de su gestor, el Dr.

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice"e;[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study"e; -NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity-and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.

Este libro reúne los resultados de investigaciones de profesionales de diversas áreas para abarcar un tema en común desde diferentes perspectivas: la investigación, la innovación y el conocimiento científico.

El espejo de la pandemia ha permitido rescatar diferentes formas de analisis de la realidad social en salud, de manera que, para el caso de esta obra, se conjugue el juicioso analisis epidemiologico de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud Mental de 2015 con la aproximacion desde las ciencias sociales, la lectura de determinantes contextuales y, en particular, la descripcion que permite el analisis espacial.

"Los virus no entienden de fronteras ni de clases sociales".

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the pandemic's go-to science communicator Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power.

Esta obra aborda el tema de la bioestadística, herramienta matemática que contribuye a la explicación del proceso salud-enfermedad, cuyos fenómenos están acompañados de gran variabilidad que debe ser medida y cuantificada.

Esta obra aborda el tema de la bioestadística, herramienta matemática que contribuye a la explicación del proceso salud-enfermedad, cuyos fenómenos están acompañados de gran variabilidad que debe ser medida y cuantificada.