Epidemiology category: 338 books
by Jose Rodrigues Coura, Patricia Dorn, J.C. Pinto Dias
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
This title critically reviews old and new literature, help to create greater awareness of the disease in the US and helps in the evaluation of certain epidemiological and public health issues.
During the first half of the 20th century, Chagas disease was assumed to be absent from the U.S. and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and astonished me. It was from a Prof. S. R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data he had accumulated, as he was ill and did not expect to survive to analyse...
by Said Abdallah Al-Mamari
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book serves as a concise guide to urinary stone disease, providing simplified and complete information about the topic area. Various surgical techniques are provided and accompanied by first-hand accounts, to give insight into the operating room.
The book is a quick reference guide and...
Nutrition and HIV
Epidemiological Evidence to Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The world continues to lose more than a million lives each year to the HIV epidemic, and nearly two million individuals were infected with HIV in 2017 alone. The new Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by countries of the United Nations in September 2015, include a commitment to end the AIDS...
Bird Keeping as a Source of Lung Cancer and Other Human Diseases
A Need for Higher Hygienic Standards
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Birdkeeping is becoming increasingly popular, but could it threaten good health? This book discusses the evi- dence suggesting that keeping pet birds is a strong risk factor for lung cancer. Its relation to a number of other endpoints, including death before age 60 and spontaneous abortion, is also...
Infectious Disease in the Aging
A Clinical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2000
Because aging is accompanied by a steady decline in resistance to infectious diseases, the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases in the elderly is not only much more complex, but also often quite different from that for younger patients.
In the second edition of Infectious Disease in the...
Studying health inequalities
An applied approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
New public health governance arrangements under the coalition government have wide reaching implications for the delivery of health inequality interventions. Through the framework of understanding health inequalities as a 'wicked problem' the book develops an applied approach to researching, understanding...
Kuwait
Urban and Medical Ecology. A Geomedical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Contested Epidemics
Policy Responses in Brazil and the US and What the BRICS Can Learn
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Despite their similar political and economic structures, Brazil and the United States have contrasting relationships with the international community as well as different policy approaches to the prevention and treatment of epidemics. In this regard, an interesting empirical puzzle arises: how and...
by Eric A. Finkelstein, Phaedra S. Corso, Ted R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems facing the United States today. Through premature death, disability, medical cost and lost productivity, injuries impact the health and welfare of all Americans. Deaths only begin to tell the story. Although many injuries are minor, a large...
Clear-Cutting Disease Control
Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.
By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The book presents the latest advances in research into health effects of air pollution, with heavy motor vehicle traffic or cigarette smoke as the exemplar of pollution. The airways are the first-line defense system against pollution. The book focuses on respiratory ailments underlain by inflammation,...
Principios de Epidemiología
Tasas y estandarización, análisis poblacionales y muestrales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2015
El objetivo del libro es el de ayudar en el uso de conceptos clásicos utilizados por la Epidemiología como son los indicadores de salud: tasas, razones de prevalencia, riesgo relativo y cociente de odds, basándose en estudios reales desarrollados por los autores del libro. La experiencia académica...
Music and Public Health
A Nordic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
From the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland) comes an exciting source of theoretical approaches, epidemiological findings, and real-life examples regarding the therapeutic and health-enhancing effects of music. Experts across fields including psychology, neurology, music therapy,...