Epidemiology 9

Parte do princípio de que finalmente uma malaise epistemológica se instala na epidemiologia, determinada pela incômoda posição de principal responsável pelas contradições da saúde pública neste fim ……続きを見る

Os autores apresentam uma das mais importantes contribuições da estatística para a discussão da causalidade, por meio do modelo de respostas potenciais proposto por Rubin, e sua interface com o méto……続きを見る

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes? Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development - does that mean exposure ca……続きを見る

Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educational achievement and aptitude, and learning style……続きを見る

A comprehensive guidebook to the current methodologies and practices used in health surveys A unique and self-contained resource, Handbook of Health Survey Methods presents techniques necessary for ……続きを見る

Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners. African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who have themsel……続きを見る

The two parts of this volume feature seventeen and six extended conference abstracts corresponding to selected talks given by participants at "Joint CRM-Imperial College Workshop in Complex Systems"……続きを見る

"Ebola: Outbreak Preparedness Guide": Prepare yourself and loved ones against this devastating decease, by reading this guide. The first and most important of this is to maintain strict s……続きを見る

Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is a slow and progressive circulation disorder. It may involve disease in any of the blood vessels outside of the heart and diseases of the lymph vesselsーarteries,……続きを見る

Health Promotion: Ideology, Discipline, and Specialism is a thorough examination of the field, advancing clear proposals for its development and future, and is essential reading for those needing an……続きを見る

When it comes to news about the Ebola virus, many people have become extremely fearful that the the country is actually dealing with an Ebola epidemic as opposed to several isolated cases of Ebola. ……続きを見る

Accessible and clinically relevant, A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content, making it p……続きを見る

Providing genome-informed personalized treatment is a goal of modern medicine. Identifying new translational targets in nucleic acid characterizations is an important step toward that goal. The info……続きを見る

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 al……続きを見る

Research on alcohol-related consequences has traditionally focused mainly on health aspects of alcohol consumption or effects which can be more easily quantified or measured. It is evident that alco……続きを見る

This volume contains papers presented at the Conference on the Demographic and Programmatic Consequences of Contraceptive In novations, which was sponsored by the Committee on Population and held at……続きを見る

AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death among women of childbearing age and is increasing by about 8% a year in this group. * And yet, our understanding of the impact of HIV and AIDS on women's li……続きを見る

Praise for the First Edition “This book will serve to greatly complement the growing number of texts dealing with mixed models, and I highly recommend including it in one’s personal library.” ーJour……続きを見る

Praise for the Third Edition “. . . an easy-to read introduction to survival analysis which covers the major concepts and techniques of the subject.” ーStatistics in Medical Research Updated and exp……続きを見る

Item response theory (IRT) has moved beyond the confines of educational measurement into assessment domains such as personality, psychopathology, and patient-reported outcomes. Classic and emerging ……続きを見る

A revolutionary book that presents analytical tools for understanding why a particular disease is transmitted within a specific geographic area. A. Townsend Peterson, one of the pioneers of ecologic……続きを見る

Intraindividual variability (IIV) of human development and behavior across the entire life-span is explored in this new book. Leading researchers summarize recent findings on the extent, role, and f……続きを見る

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Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level. National and regi……続きを見る

As we enter the last decade of the twentieth century, the AIDS epidemic looms ever larger and threatening. The specter of upwards of a million deaths in the United States and perhaps many millions w……続きを見る

 Ebola us a dangerous and deadly disease but many people do not realize that your chances of contracting the disease are slim unless you come into direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids……続きを見る

Recent Developments in Graves' Ophthalmopathy offers an overview of the pathogenesis, assessment and management of patients with thyroid-associated eye disease. Each chapter is written by an expert ……続きを見る

Statistics in Sport and Exercise Science assumes no prior knowledge of statistics and uses real-life case studies to introduce the importance of statistics in sport and exercise science. Statistical……続きを見る

Over the past decade, the AIDS pandemic has propagated so widely and exerted such a dev astating impact that one may properly ask the question, Why not concentrate all AIDS efforts on disease contro……続きを見る

Public health has a legacy of neglect regarding social and behavioral research. Too often, prompted by technical and scientific progress, we have ignored even marginalized-the vital "human element" ……続きを見る