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“john kemm”

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  • Health Promotion

    Ideology, Discipline, and Specialism

    by John Kemm ...
    Health Promotion: Ideology, Discipline, and Specialism is a thorough examination of the field, advancing clear proposals for its development and future, and is essential reading for those needing an understanding of the theoretical background, historical context, or the challenges that health promotion faces today. Health promotion is a term which has been used varyingly to describe an ideology, a ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

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  • Dread

    How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

    by Philip Alcabes ...
    Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts on the ground. In a fascinating exploration of the social and cultural history of epidemics, Alcabes delivers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine

    by Geoffrey Rose ...
    The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose's insights into the inextricable relationship between ill health, or deviance, in individuals and populations they come from, have transformed our whole approach to strategies for improving health. His personal and unique book, based on many years ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Bioinformatics for Beginners

    Genes, Genomes, Molecular Evolution, Databases and Analytical Tools

    by Supratim Choudhuri ...
    Bioinformatics for Beginners: Genes, Genomes, Molecular Evolution, Databases and Analytical Tools provides a coherent and friendly treatment of bioinformatics for any student or scientist within biology who has not routinely performed bioinformatic analysis. The book discusses the relevant principles needed to understand the theoretical underpinnings of bioinformatic analysis and demonstrates, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health

    Measuring Truth and Uncertainty

    by S. Nassir Ghaemi ...
    Accessible and clinically relevant, A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content, making it perfect for the busy health professional. Using clear language in favour of complex terminology, limitations of statistical techniques are emphasized, as well as the importance of interpretation - as ... Read more

    $66.49 USD

  • The Economics of Epidemiology

    by Troy Tassier ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The book presents a basic introduction to epidemiology from the perspective of economics, using economic modeling to better understand and describe how infectious disease spreads. Three main elements are introduced: epidemiology, social network analysis, and the economics needed to model the behavior of individuals in the presence of infectious disease. The book aims to provide a starting point ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Analysis of Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data

    by Inge Koch ...
    Series Book 32 - Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics
    'Big data' poses challenges that require both classical multivariate methods and contemporary techniques from machine learning and engineering. This modern text equips you for the new world - integrating the old and the new, fusing theory and practice and bridging the gap to statistical learning. The theoretical framework includes formal statements that set out clearly the guaranteed 'safe ... Read more

    $76.29 USD

  • Medical Decision Making

    A Physician's Guide

    by Alan Schwartz, George Bergus ...
    Decision making is a key activity, perhaps the most important activity, in the practice of healthcare. Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialised skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgement and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician is distinguished. This has become even more relevant ... Read more

    $88.59 USD

  • Zika

    The Emerging Epidemic

    by Donald G. McNeil Jr. ...
    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 trend: many mothers who had recently experienced symptoms of the Zika virus were giving birth to babies with ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Systems Science and Population Health

    Edited by Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Sandro Galea ...
    Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between. Our typical approach to studying population health, however, remains oriented around a reductionist approach to conceptualizing, empirically analyzing, and intervening to improve population health. The trouble is that interventions founded on simplifying a complex ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Economics and Preventing Healthcare Acquired Infection

    by Nicholas Graves, Kate Halton, William Jarvis ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Reasons for Writing This Book The published literature on the economic appraisal of healthcare acquired infection (HAI) is described by phrases such as: “With so many virtues of the cost-benefit approach identified, it is perhaps puzzling why greater use of economic appraisal has not been made in the area of infection control” [1] “Clinicians should partner with economists and policy analysts to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Zika in Focus

    Postnatal Clinical, Laboratorial and Radiological Aspects

    Edited by Maria de Fátima Viana Vasco Aragão ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book addresses the most important postnatal features of Zika virus infection, providing important information on its epidemiology, pathology, clinical aspects, imaging and laboratory diagnosis. Since the report of a Zika virus infection epidemic in Northeastern Brazil in 2015, the world has paid close attention to this emergent disease. Historically, this has been the third outbreak of Zika ... Read more

    $49.49 USD