Epidemiology 2

The novel coronavirus and COVID-19 will be introduced to the public in the form of question and answer. The novel aims to publicize the correct, authoritative and professional protection knowledge o……続きを見る

A novel public health concept, the Fangcang Shelter Hospital was first proposed by Professor Wang Chen, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, in Wuhan, China, in February 2020. While res……続きを見る

The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. The sixth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, offering a global an……続きを見る

Praise for the Second Edition: "… this is a useful, comprehensive compendium of almost every possible sample size formula. The strong organization and carefully defined formulae will aid any researc……続きを見る

The COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei, saw great numbers of patients overwhelming the admission capacity of designated infectious diseases hospitals, which in turn led to insufficient medical suppli……続きを見る

Highly practical yet authoritative, the new edition of Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology has been thoroughly updated and revised in line with changing health concerns. This successful book cont……続きを見る

The novel coronavirus and COVID-19 will be introduced to the public in the form of question and answer. The novel aims to publicize the correct, authoritative and professional protection knowledge o……続きを見る

“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” ー Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The M……続きを見る

Rica seleção de textos e experiências sobre a questão da saúde indígena no Brasil, originários de discussão em oficina de trabalho ocorrida no V Congresso Brasileiro de Epidemiologia (Curitiba, 2002……続きを見る

Traz como principais eixos temáticos: as reflexões relacionadas ao conceito e aos usos da epidemiologia, especificamente na psiquiatria e saúde mental; as questões metodológicas dedicadas às concepç……続きを見る

Trata da relação entre o conceito de transmissão e a gênese do conhecimento epidemiológico. Busca responder às seguintes questões: como, a partir da ocorrência de uma epidemia, vão sendo construídas……続きを見る

No Brasil, ela já foi responsável por epidemias em diferentes cidades. Nos últimos dez anos, sua letalidade aumentou em diversas regiões do país. Em várias partes do mundo ela vem se expandindo, inc……続きを見る

Trata da eqüidade/iniqüidade e de seu duplo, a igualdade/desigualdade, tendo sempre como referencial a saúde das populações, em textos que enfocam: a dimensão política das sociedades ocidentais na a……続きを見る

The emergence of Zika virus in 2015 challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with majo……続きを見る

Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two wor……続きを見る

Across the last forty years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological sciences, incorporating everything from statistics to the ……続きを見る

Now in its third edition, this highly successful text has been fully revised and updated with expanded sections on cutting-edge techniques including Poisson regression, negative binomial regression,……続きを見る

The success of the Apgar score demonstrates the astounding power of an appropriate clinical instrument. This down-to-earth book provides practical advice, underpinned by theoretical principles, on d……続きを見る

A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a……続きを見る

Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book Prize The Zika virus is devastating lives and communities. Children across the Americas are being born with severe disabilities because of it. Yet during the desolatin……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive resource on the pathology of the human singleton placenta. Agreed nomenclature, nosology, definitions and, where possible, thresholds for meaningful clinical corre……続きを見る

Mendelian Randomization: Methods For Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants provides thorough coverage of the methods and practical elements of Mendelian randomization analysis. It brings together ……続きを見る

This textbook and guide focuses on methodologies for bias analysis in epidemiology and public health, not only providing updates to the first edition but also further developing methods and adding n……続きを見る

This practical introduction to second-order and growth mixture models using Mplus introduces simple and complex techniques through incremental steps. The authors extend latent growth curves to secon……続きを見る

The healthcare sector is one of the fastest growing areas of social and public spending worldwide, and it is expected to increase its government shares of GDP in the near future. Truly global in its……続きを見る

In the latter half of the 20th century, Japan developed into a thriving economy, and the Japanese remain one of the healthiest populations in the world to this day. However, in the past 25 years, lo……続きを見る

Principles of Biostatistics, Third Edition is a concepts-based introduction to statistical procedures that prepares public health, medical, and life sciences students to conduct and evaluate researc……続きを見る

In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer wit……続きを見る

A health disparity refers to a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one group relative to others attributable to multiple factors including socioeconomic status,……続きを見る

This is a practical guide to tomographic image reconstruction with projection data, with strong focus on Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Classic methods such as FBP,……続きを見る