Epidemiology

Essential for non-statisticians and researchers working with longitudinal data from medical studies, this updated new edition discusses the most important techniques available for analysing data of this type. Using non-technical language, the book...

Ethical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241571128Author World Health Organization(WHO)Format PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health...

Genetic epidemiology is a very rapidly developing field that has acquired a central role in modern biomedical science. Driven by fast-paced technological advances arising from the sequencing of the human genome, and the rolling-out of these technologies...

Foreword by Lisa Berkman, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University How welfare states influence population health and health inequalities has long been debated but less well tested by empirical research. This book presents new empirical evidence...

This volume focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. While many of the international articles focus on infectious...

Public health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This 'new public health' identifies how social, economic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646791774Author John SnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608053308Author Steven S CoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams)...

Bayesian Precision Medicine presents modern Bayesian statistical models and methods for identifying treatments tailored to individual patients using their prognostic variables and predictive biomarkers. The process of evaluating and comparing treatments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987807637Author Mark E WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Cone Shell PressPublisher Cone Shell PressWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922227768Author Iconcept PressFormat PaperbackImprint Iconcept PressPublisher Iconcept PressWeight(grams) 630g

Current textbooks provide a strong bio-medical view on epidemics. In this textbook, the bio-medical view will be extended to a human view including insights from humanities, social sciences. This extension challenges us all the more to combine the...

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950354894Author Johan AnderbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922227829Author Iconcept PressFormat PaperbackImprint Iconcept PressPublisher Iconcept PressWeight(grams) 554g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789283221357Author F.E. AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint International Agency for Research on CancerPublisher International Agency for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419686948Author Philip C Gioia MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646791767Author John SnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434458322Author A M DumarFormat PaperbackImprint Brownstone BooksPublisher Brownstone BooksWeight(grams) 91g

This book presents national estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics on sexual behaviour, sexual attraction, and sexual identity in the United States; prevalence and timing of oral sex with opposite-sex partners among females and males...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060730901Author Robert D MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicle illuminated by his travels in the region, Shawn Smallman shows how the varying histories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473525217Author Peter KirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Adam P KirbyPublisher Adam P KirbyWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Accessible, practical, and student-friendly, Systematic Reviews to Answer Health Care Questions, Second Edition, by Dr. Heidi D. Nelson, uses easy-to-understand, step-by-step instruction and real-world examples to illustrate important concepts and...

Healthcare systems globally are grappling with how best to implement effective and efficient patient-centred care while simultaneously trying to contain runaway costs and provide high quality. This book explores the essential enabling role of digital...

Improving laws and policies starts with advocacy and now more than ever this new book, Advocacy for Public Health Policy Change: An Urgent Imperative will be instrumental in training public health practitioners and students to turn their expertise into...

It is impossible to reflect on 2020 without discussing Covid-19. The term, literally meaning corona-(CO) virus (VI) disease (D) of 2019, has become synonymous with "the virus", "corona" and "the pandemic". The impact of the virus on our lives is...

Pandemic influenza is a re-emerging pathogen with serious public health consequences. The A(H1N1) pandemic in 2009/10 and the continuing threat to humans from avian influenza A(H5N1) and other novel influenza viruses have both underlined the importance...

The anthrax murders in the U.S. and discoveries of biological weapon plans in Africa served as a wake-up call (too late as usual) that biological weapons might actually be a weapon of mass destruction. Their small size but highly deadly nature adds to...

The UK government's reforms of the NHS and public health system require partnerships if they are to succeed. Those partnerships concerned with public health are especially important and are deemed to be a 'good thing' which add, rather than consume,...

Applied statisticians in many fields must frequently analyze time to event data. While the statistical tools presented in this book are applicable to data from medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, engineering, economics, and demography, the...

Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasing both because staff want their data analysed and because of increasing mandated surveillance. This book provides a suite of functions in R, enabling scientists and data analysts working in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833023858Author Elizabeth M. SlossFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 331g

The Vaccines for Peace (VFP) programme is designed to counter reservations about the military misuse of research into vaccines. It focuses on vaccines developed to combat those pathogens and toxins which can be used as weapon agents. In Control of...

This book is the definitive guide to field epidemiology - the application of epidemiologic methods to unexpected health problems (e.g. bioterrorist attacks, natural disasters, industrial accidents) where rapid, on-site investigation is necessary. The...

Inoculating Cities: Case Studies of the Urban Response of the COVID-19 Pandemic uses detailed case studies to document and describe how cities located in high, middle and low-income countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. City governments and...

This book provides significant health statistics through reports from federal agencies. The statistics discussed include updates on previously reported estimates for strategies used by U.S. adults aged 18 and over to reduce their prescription drug costs;...