Epidemiology category: 338 books
by Anthony Morton, Kerrie L. Mengersen, Geoffrey Playford
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
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 infection management and quality improvement departments...
Deadly River
Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold—soon to become the world’s largest cholera epidemic in modern times. In a country that had never before reported cholera, the epidemic mysteriously and simultaneously appeared in...
by Mark Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect us from horrifying contagious diseases, such faith is dangerously unfounded. So demonstrates Mark Harrison in this pathbreaking investigation of the intimate connections between trade and disease throughout...
Public Health Informatics
Designing for change - a developing country perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Over the last three decades enormous effort has gone into strengthening public health information systems (HIS). They are now a key element of health sector reform initiatives, but are growing in complexity. This is driven by the increasing diversity of technology platforms, increasing demands for...
West Nile Disease
An Exhaustive Look At A Deadly Disease Where You Will Learn Top-Rated Secrets For West Nile Treatment, West Nile Fever, West Nile Symptoms and How To Defeat The West Nile Virus
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
If you want to know about the west nile disease and how to prevent it then you will love this eBook. This book will provide you with a wealth of information on how to identify west nile symptoms, west nile treatment, how to combat west nile fever, west nile virus and more.
Integrating Health Impact Assessment with the Policy Process
Lessons and experiences from around the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Health Impact Assessment is a policy-support instrument and approach that seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies on population health. The ultimate goal of HIA is to systematically predict health impacts and subsequently inform the intersectoral decision- and policy-making...
by Thomas J. Chambers, Thomas P. Monath
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Over 50% of known flaviviruses have been associated with human disease. The Flavivirus genus constitutes some of the most serious human pathogens including Japanese encephalitis, dengue and yellow fever. Flaviviruses are known for their complex life cycles and epidemic spread, and are considered a...
by Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A gripping narrative about the origins and spread of the Zika virus by New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Until recently, Zika—once considered a mild disease—was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice a...
by Jason Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The Zika virus was very uncommon, until recently. Zika virus has been in the news for a while now, especially this year. This has been due to the recent widespread infections in parts of America, mostly South America. This has led to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention issuing travel alerts...
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The 2013–2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a public health disaster: 28,575 infections and 11,313 deaths (as of October 2015), devastating the countries of...
Biological Variation in Health and Illness
Race, Age, and Sex Differences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Specifically for the health professional, this book contains an extensive compilation of research findings on biologic variation by race, age, and gender relating to health and illness. Completely rewritten, revised, and updated, the Second Edition includes an increased discussion of biologic variation...
Risk, Chance, and Causation
Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The press and other media constantly report news stories about dangerous chemicals in the environment, miracle cures, the safety of therapeutic treatments, and potential cancer-causing agents. But what exactly is actually meant by increased risk”-should we worry if we are told that we are at twice...
by James Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
What do you know about Ebola and how are you planning on fighting it in case it comes to your neighborhood? This book is made to teach you everything there is to know about Ebola fever, making sure that you don’t mistake this serious contagious disease with “zombie apocalypse” as some of the misinformed...
Global Pandemic Threats: A Reference Handbook
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat, identifies the difficulties in coping with them, and provides hope in the form of modern medicine.
• Provides readers...