Emerging Pandemics
Pandemics are often associated with viruses and bacteria occurring in wildlife in natural environments. Thus, diseases of epidemic and pandemic scale are mostly zoonotic, some of which include AIDS, Zika virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and COVID-19. The book seeks to explore the documented history of pandemics and various epidemics that have the potential of turning into pandemics with the warming climate, pollution, and environmental destruction. The book covers some of the mo...
Introduction to Epidemiology
by Brigham Young University Utah Ray M Merrill
An Inquiry Into The Nature And Treatment Of Diabetes, Calculus And Other Affections Of The Urinary Organs
by William Prout
Longitudinal research is an essential element in the investigation of human development over time, with considerable advantages over more widely used cross-sectional research designs. This book examines the scope for longitudinal studies in a range of developmental fields, emphasizing the advantages of this approach for the investigation of causal mechanisms and processes and the dynamics of development over the lifespan. It also discusses methodological issues and some of the practical and ethi...
In The White Plague, René and Jean Dubos argue that the great increase of tuberculosis was intimately connected with the rise of an industrial, urbanized society and—a much more controversial idea when this book first appeared forty years ago—that the progress of medical science had very little to do with the marked decline in tuberculosis in the twentieth century. The White Plague has long been regarded as a classic in the social and environmental history of disease. This reprint of the 1952 e...
The Statistical Analysis of Doubly Truncated Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
by Jacobo J de Una-Alvarez, Rosa R Crujeiras, and Carla C Moreira
A thorough treatment of the statistical methods used to analyze doubly truncated data In The Statistical Analysis of Doubly Truncated Data, an expert team of statisticians delivers an up-to-date review of existing methods used to deal with randomly truncated data, with a focus on the challenging problem of random double truncation. The authors comprehensively introduce doubly truncated data before moving on to discussions of the latest developments in the field. The book offers readers examp...
This selection of Frost's poetry contains forty poems spanning his early and mature collections including choices from "A Boy's Will", "North of Boston", "West-Running Brook", "A Further Range", and "In the Clearing". This edition has comprehensive notes on the poems and an Approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and techniques within the poetry, such as Frost's pastoral imagery, his friendship with Edward Thomas, and his narrative and lyric voices.
Il testo presenta gli sviluppi matematici e statistici relativi alo studio dei fenomeni dipendenti dal tempo, con l'obiettivo di mettere in grado il lettore di comprendere ed utilizzare i metodi di previsione statistica per le serie temporali, le catene di Markov, i processi di punti. L'attenzione e posta sia sugli aspetti strutturali probabilistici, illustrandoli nel dominio temporale e in quello frequenziale, sia su quelli statistici relativi all'inferenza . Il libro nasce come testo per co...
Having a happy, healthy child is what every expectant parent hopes and prays for. Imagine the devastation if your child is born healthy, and through medical misinformation, is transformed into a child that suffers permanent mental handicap and convulsions. This is what happened to Rosemary Fox shortly after her daughter, Helen, was born. As she sought explanations and compensation, she was told that she was damaging the vaccine program and told to keep quiet. She refused, and campaigned to get t...
100 Questions & Answers about Childhood Immunizations
by Thomas H Belhorn
A “clear and insightful” takedown of the anti-vaccination movement, from its 19th-century antecedents to modern-day Facebook activists—with strategies for refuting false claims of friends and family (Financial Times) Vaccines are a documented success story, one of the most successful public health interventions in history. Yet there is a vocal anti-vaccination movement, featuring celebrity activists (including Kennedy scion Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and actress Jenny McCarthy) and the propagation o...
Twenty-Two Years presents the results of a unique longitudinal study of the first 22 years in the lives of more than 200 young people with varying degrees of mental retardation. By following their paths through available services, job histories, leisure activities, friendships, and marriages, the authors provide objective information about the quality of life of young people with mental retardation.The book makes a unique contribution by determining what factors in childhood predict who will and...
Guidance for managing ethical issues in infectious disease outbreaks
This book provides answers to fundamental and challenging questions regarding the global response to COVID-19. It creates a historical record of COVID-19 research conducted over the four years of the pandemic, with a focus on how researchers have responded, quantified, and modeled COVID-19 problems. Since mid-2021, we have diligently monitored and analyzed global scientific efforts in tackling COVID-19. Our comprehensive global endeavor involves collecting, processing, analyzing, and discovering...
Occupational Epidemiology
Molecular Virology and Control of Flaviviruses
Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles
by Anne M Johnson, Jane Wadsworth, Julia Field, and Kaye Wellings
The field of sexual behaviour has been notoriously neglected in social research and there has been no major survery of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey report in the late 1950s. Various social and health problems, including the AIDS epidemic and the increase in teenage pregnancies have recently underlined the need for an up to date and authoritative analysis of current sexual behaviour. Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles is the result of a major statistical survey of the sexual behaviours and atti...
Prevention and Control of Yellow Fever in Africa