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Statistical methodology is of great importance to medical research and clinical practice. The Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics contains readable accounts of the key topics central to current research and practice. Each entry has been written by an...
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Wiley
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2010-10-26
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Mathematical models are increasingly being used to examine questions in infectious disease control. Applications include predicting the impact of vaccination strategies against common infections and determining optimal control strategies against HIV and pandemic...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-05-13
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Mathematical models are increasingly being used to examine questions in infectious disease control. Applications include predicting the impact of vaccination strategies against common infections and determining optimal control strategies against HIV and pandemic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-05-13
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What is epidemiology?What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented?
Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of disease and its main aim is to improve the health of populations. It's a vital field, central to the health of society,...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-02-25
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What is epidemiology?What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented?
Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of disease and its main aim is to improve the health of populations. It's a vital field, central to the health of society,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-02-25
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At its core, epidemiology is concerned with changes in health and disease. The discipline requires counts and measures: of births, health disorders, and deaths, and in order to make sense of these counts it requires a population base defined by place and time....
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Oxford University Press
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2009-08-13
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RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes of evolutionary change in real time. The study of viral evolution is especially topical given the growing awareness that emerging and re-emerging diseases (most of which are caused byRNA viruses)...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-06-25
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Over the past fifty years, the case-control method, and to a lesser extent its case-based variants, have become the most important tools for the investigator of health problems. The case control method is the study of persons with the disease and a suitable control...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-02
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Family-based studies, including intergenerational, sibling, and twin studies, are increasingly being used to explore life course epidemiology. However, there are issues relating to study design and the statistical analysis of family-based studies that are still not well...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-04-02
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A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies. Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-23
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IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies. Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-23
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This perennial bestseller is an ideal introductions to epidemiology in health care. The fifith editon retains the book's simplicity and brevity, at the same time providing the reader with the core elements of epidemiology needed in health care practice and research. The...
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BMJ Books
Parution :
2009-02-05
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Physical activity clearly is associated with decreased risk of many chronic diseases, as well as with longer life. Utilizing modern epidemiologic methods, studies of physical activity and health have been conducted since the 1940s. However physical inactivity did not...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-09-29
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This comprehensive, well referenced text provides an up to date review of what is known scientifically about occupational and environmental causes of sickness, disability, and death. It also includes information on the scientific methods used in acquiring this...
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BMJ Books
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2008-04-30
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In 1969 the first edition of this book introduced the concepts of statistics and their medical application to readers with no formal training in this area. While retaining this basic aim, the authors have expanded the coverage in each subsequent edition to keep pace...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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Holistic approach to understanding medical statistics This hands-on guide is much more than a basic medical statistics introduction. It equips you with the statistical tools required for evidence-based clinical research. Each chapter provides a clear step-by-step guide...
Editeur :
BMJ Books
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Updated companion volume to the ever popular Statistics at Square One (SS1) Statistics at Square Two, Second Edition, helps you evaluate the many statistical methods in current use. Going beyond the basics of SS1, it covers sophisticated methods and highlights...
Editeur :
BMJ Books
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This book is a joint package of a practical manual on how to undertake meta-analysis in medicine together with an accompanying CD-ROM.This provides individuals with access to meta-analysis software and the instructions and guidance on how to undertake them. The...
Editeur :
BMJ Books
Parution :
2008-04-15
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During the past twenty years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States. An estimated thirty percent of adults in the US are obese; in 1980, only fifteen percent were. The issue is gaining greater attention with the CDC and with the public health...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-03-21
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