Epidemiology and Medical statistics Books

This book is intended for students and practitioners who have had a calculus-based statistics course and who have an interest in safety considerations such as reliability, strength, and duration-of-load or service life. Many...

The editors are two of the most prominent researchers in this area. Both are at the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies. David Vlahov is particularly visible and known as the editor of the Journal of Urban Health. Sandro...

It is surprising how little is actually known about the fate of wastewater bacteria once they enter the sea. This wide-ranging work is one of the first to unravel the mechanisms determining bacterial sensitivity or survival...

Covers the latest research on a sensitive and controversial topic in a professional and well researched manner. Provides practical outlook as well as model guidelines and software tools that should be of interest to people who...

This book studies and applies modern flexible regression models for survival data with a special focus on extensions of the Cox model and alternative models with the aim of describing time-varying effects of explanatory...

Genetic susceptibility refers to how variations in a person's genes increase or decrease his or her susceptibility to environmental factors, such as chemicals, radiation and lifestyle (diet and smoking). This volume will explore the latest findings in...

1 The Need for Prevention.- 2 What Works Today in Prevention.- 3 A Prevention Program that Works: Creating Lasting Family Connections.- 4 Illustrative Examples from the Parent and Youth Training Components.- 5 The Creating Lasting Family Connections...

New Concepts in the Pathogenesis of HIV1 Encephalopathy: HIV Encephalopathy: Clinical and Diagnostic Considerations (J.R. Berger, R. Kaderman). Models of HIV1 Infection and Neurotoxicity in the Human Fetal Nervous System: Overview: Models of HIV1...

Epidemiologic Methods for Assessment and Analysis: The Need for an Epidemiologic Perspective in Health Care Management. Overview of the Interrelationship between Population, Health Care Needs, Services, and Health Status. Measurement of Health...

Experience with Contraceptive Side Effects: Selection of a Contraceptive; P. Senanayake. Contraceptives and Women's Complaints; Y. Ahmed, S. Boccard. Variability in Steriod Pharmacokinetics: Population and Delivery Systems; J. Garza-Flores, et al...

The Etiology and Prevention of Aerodigestive Tract Cancers.- Epidemiology of Vitamin A and Aerodigestive Cancer.- Multiple Primary Squamous Carcinomas of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract.- Genetic and Environmental Interactions as Risks for Aerodigestive...

Importance of Laboratory Validations and Accurate Descriptions of Analytical Procedures for Drug Residues in Foods (C.J. Barnes). Incidence of Residues in Foods of Animal Origin (M.S. Brady, S.E. Katz). Radioimmunoassay of Antibiotic/Drug Residues...

I. Sex Differences: Facts and Myths.- 1. Gender Segregation in the Workplace: Continuities and Discontinuities from Childhood to Adulthood.- The Prevalence of Gender Segregation in Childhood.- Causal Factors Underlying Gender Segregation.- Distinctive...

Introduction; L.C. Chen, et al. Epidemiolgy and Policy: AIDS and Reproductive Health; K. LaGuardia. Policy and Legal Aspects of AIDS Interventions; H. Fineberg. Risk Factors in Transmission: Factors Affecting Female-to-Male Transmission of HIV1; F.A...

Microbes apparently constitute almost 75% of the total biomass on Earth! Human beings account for a paltry 0.5 billion tons! Who is David and who is Goliath? The viruses are on the top of the list of most populous creatures on the planet but incredibly...

This Handbook provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of statistical concepts and methods. It has been designed to be accessible to a wide range of readers - from undergraduates and postgraduates studying statistics and statistical analysis as...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

John Parkin's groundbreaking work on the nature of epidemic diseases is a must-read for anyone interested in public health and epidemiology. Drawing on extensive research and a wide range of scientific disciplines, Parkin provides a comprehensive...

In this meticulous study of mortality statistics, Robert Henderson provides a detailed examination of the factors that affect life expectancy and death rates. From the impact of disease and poverty on mortality, to the role of social and cultural factors...

Provides simple explanations of the important concepts in population and community ecology. Provides R code throughout, to illustrate model development and analysis, as well as appendix introducing the R language. Interweaves...

Prediction models are important in various fields, including medicine, physics, meteorology, and finance. Prediction models will become more relevant in the medical field with the increase in knowledge on potential predictors...

This book provides a practical introduction to analyzing ecological data using real data sets. The first part gives a largely non-mathematical introduction to data exploration, univariate methods (including GAM and mixed...

In the field of molecular evolution, inferences about past evolutionary events are made using molecular data from currently living species. With the availability of genomic data from multiple related species, molecular...

This applied clinical medicine and public health text introduces the fundamental concepts in epidemiological investigation and demonstrates how to integrate emerging research on epigenomics into practice.

Sixteen years into the AIDS epidemic, our understandings of the virus, its transmis­ sion, modes of controlling blood banks and testing are relatively well established. In the last decade, we have also experienced an ...

Much has already been written about risk assessment. Epidemiologists write books on how risk assessment is used to explore the factors that influence the distribution of disease in populations of people. Toxicologists write...

This book benefited from the financial support of a French Government scholarship between 1976 and 1978. It sponsored a doctoral thesis in which initial theoretical, empirical, and historical reflections on acci­ dents were...

An attractive feature of self-regulation therapies is that, instead of doing something to the patients, they teach them to do something for them­ selves. Furthermore, the fact that the patient is able to do something to cope...

This book has been well received in many places and in many countries. It was awarded a ranking in the top ten publications on behavioral medicine in the year that it first appeared. When, in 1977, we began to fit the ...

Epidemiology, the study of population health by means of group comparisons, is of increasing importance to health policy and medicine, but it has never before received sustained philosophical attention. This book is the first comprehensive philosophical...

Epidemiological studies show that cancer incidence is far more dependent on the conditions of life than previously supposed

""A Theoretical Inquiry Into The Physical Cause Of Epidemic Diseases"" is a book written by Alexander Hamilton Howe in 1865. The book explores the physical causes of epidemic diseases and provides a theoretical inquiry into the subject matter. The author...

Vector-borne diseases have increasingly emerged as significant causes of human illnesses worldwide, largely due to environmental changes (deforestation), population movements (migration and travelling), international trades, and buildup of drug...

This book provides a comprehensive guide to establishing a department of epidemiology for army divisions. It covers everything from setting up a lab to conducting research and analyzing data. With practical tips and real-world examples, this book is an...

Medical statistics is a vital field for anyone working in healthcare, providing a framework for analyzing medical data and making informed decisions. In this book, Hawkins provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of medical statistics,...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of respiratory infections from an epidemiological and public health perspective, including their causes, transmission, prevention, and treatment. Written by renowned experts in the field, this book is an...

A public health guide to preventing and managing smallpox outbreaks, published by the Illinois State Board of Health in 1907.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we...

Un atlas fascinant qui montre la distribution géographique des maladies dans le monde, en fonction des conditions climatiques. L'auteur, qui était un médecin suisse réputé, a rassemblé des données de différents pays pour créer cet ouvrage unique en son...

Un traité médical du XIXe siècle sur les maladies endémiques et leur relation avec les facteurs géographiques et statistiques. Le livre est considéré comme une contribution importante à l'épidémiologie et à la santé publique.This work has been selected...

Epidemic Cholera is a groundbreaking book that explores the history and impact of cholera epidemics around the world. John Macpherson's in-depth analysis provides readers with a systematic overview of the disease, as well as strategies for preventing and...

Everyone has a COVID pandemic story to tell. Dr. Andrew Duxbury has many: stories of a veteran geriatric physician caring for the most fragile patients in a university health system and in rural homes in the Deep South; stories of his concern for family,...

Most medical researchers, whether clinical or non-clinical, receive some background in statistics as undergraduates. However, it is most often brief, a long time ago, and largely forgotten by the time it is needed. Furthermore, many introductory texts...

The 1989 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis dramatically demonstrated one of the most important reasons for having the Society - to bring together people with highly diverse backgrounds and disciplines to assess...