Epidemiology & Medical Statistics

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Edition, is the must have resource for anyone in the field of public health. Every chapter has been r...

Epidemiology has been defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of health states or events in defined populations and its applicati...

Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its discove...

As many medical and healthcare researchers have a love-hate relationship with statistics, the second edition of this practical reference book may m...

Every time we sneeze, there seems to be a new form of flu: bird flu, swine flu, Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, H5N1, and most recently, H5N7. While th...

In its expanded second edition, this chronology examines the effects of epidemic illness and death on human culture from 2700 bce to 2017. Entri...

In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In Saturday...

Containing the historical and statistical information necessary to choose an analysis method and successful drug combination, Evaluating Synergy ...

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...

So-called top-down technologies have enabled us to manufacture and fabricate structures even smaller than the micrometer scale. MEMS (Micro Electro...

Epigenetics is a relatively new field of science explaining heritable changes that are not caused by alterations in DNA sequences. Epigenetic modif...

Cardiac tamponade is a life threatening pericardial disease which is characterized by an obstruction of inflow of blood to the ventricles leading t...

Myotonic dystrophy is a multisystemic disorder. The epidemiology of DM is examined in the first chapter of this book as well as potential therapeut...

The importance of managed care in Medicaid -- under which states contract with managed care organisations (MCOs) to provide a specific set of servi...

A human disaster is defined as a hazardous event that overwhelms the capacity of the local community to respond to the needs of the affected popula...

Weaving together research findings and narratives, Culture of Health in Practice: Innovations in Research, Community Engagement, and Action explore...

Practical Implementation of an Antibiotic Stewardship Program provides an essential resource for healthcare providers in acute care, long-term care...