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Bristol University Press Studying Health Inequalities
Book SynopsisThrough the framework of understanding health inequalities as a 'wicked problem' the book develops an applied approach to researching, understanding and addressing these by drawing on complexity theory.Trade Review"An absolute 'must read' for health-care practitioners and social scientists, this book makes a compelling case for 'the way forward' for policy makers." Brian Castellani, Kent State University"An excellent overview of research on health inequality and measures to reduce them. The examples, while drawn mainly from the UK, have international relevance for the debate about 'what works' in tackling these inequalities." Sarah Curtis, FBA, Professor of Health and Risk, Durham University“This is a very important book and a must-read for anyone interested in doing applied social science in today’s political climate where evidence and complexity matter.” Emma Uprichard, Warwick UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Part one: Context and theory: developing an applied approach to studying health inequalities; Health inequalities, wicked problems and complexity; Health inequalities: adopting a whole systems approach; Measuring health inequalities; Part two: health inequalities in England; A history of health inequalities in England; Health inequalities post 2010; Part Three: Case studies; Evidence for public health practice: Health Inequalities National Support Team (Professor Chris Bentley and Peter Counsell); Qualitative Comparative Analysis case study; Part 4: Conclusion; Conclusion.
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Bristol University Press Stay Home
Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically exposed weaknesses in UK housing, with housing inequality contributing to the unequal impact of the disease. Becky Tunstall assesses the position of housing in public policy and health, and the most immediate responses to the pandemic in one convenient resource for students, scholars and practitioners.Table of Contents1. COVID-19, housing and home 2. UK households and homes before the pandemic 3. The pandemic and pandemic policy in the UK 4. People, households and time at home in the pandemic 5. The role of household and home in COVID-19 infection and death 6. Being vulnerable or ill at home in the pandemic 7. The impact of COVID-19 and COVID-19 policy on incomes, housing costs and housing security 8. The impact of COVID-19 and COVID-19 policy on the housing market 9. Summary and conclusions
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ HIV Epidemics in the European Region Vulnerability and Response
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Count the Dead Coroners Quants and the Birth of Death as We Know It
Book SynopsisExamining the development of death registration systems in the United States - from the first mortality census in 1850 to the development of the death certificate at the turn of the century - this book argues that mortality data transformed life on Earth, proving critical to the systemization of public health, casualty reporting, and human rights.
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Human Kinetics Publishers Statistics in Kinesiology
Book SynopsisStatistics in Kinesiology, Fifth Edition, introduces basic statistical concepts, with an emphasis on those commonly used in the exercise sciences. Examples drawn from kinesiology fields and extensive problem sets facilitate a deeper understanding of statistical methods and their applications.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Measurement, Statistics, and Research What Is Measurement? Process of Measurement Variables and Constants Research Design and Statistical Analysis Statistical Inference SummaryChapter 2. Organizing and Displaying Data Organizing Data Displaying Data SummaryChapter 3. Percentiles Common Percentile Divisions Calculations Using Percentiles SummaryChapter 4. Measures of Central Tendency Mode Median Mean Relationships Among the Mode, Median, and Mean SummaryChapter 5. Measures of Variability Range Interquartile Range Variance Standard Deviation Definition Method of Hand Calculations Calculating Standard Deviation for a Sample Coefficient of Variation Standard Deviation and Normal Distribution SummaryChapter 6. The Normal Curve Z Scores Standard Scores Probability and Odds Calculating Skewness and Kurtosis SummaryChapter 7. Fundamentals of Statistical Inference Predicting Population Parameters Using Statistical Inference Estimating Sampling Error Levels of Confidence, Confidence Intervals, and Probability of Error An Example Using Statistical Inference Statistical Hypothesis Testing Type I and Type II Error Degrees of Freedom Living With Uncertainty Two- and One-Tailed Tests Applying Confidence Intervals SummaryChapter 8. Correlation and Bivariate Regression Correlation Calculating the Correlation Coefficient Bivariate Regression Homoscedasticity SummaryChapter 9. Multiple Correlation and Multiple Regression Multiple Correlation Partial Correlation Multiple Regression SummaryChapter 10. The t Test: Comparing Means From Two Sets of Data The t Tests Types of t Tests Magnitude of the Difference (Size of Effect) Determining Power and Sample Size The t Test for Proportions SummaryChapter 11. Simple Analysis of Variance: Comparing the Means Among Three or More Sets of Data Assumptions in ANOVA Sources of Variance Calculating F: The Definition Method Determining the Significance of F Post Hoc Tests Magnitude of the Treatment (Size of Effect) SummaryChapter 12. Analysis of Variance With Repeated Measures Assumptions in Repeated Measures ANOVA Calculating Repeated Measures ANOVA Correcting for Violations of the Assumption of Sphericity Post Hoc Tests Interpreting the Results An Example From Leisure Studies and Recreation SummaryChapter 13. Quantifying Reliability Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Standard Error of Measurement SummaryChapter 14. Factorial Analysis of Variance A Between–Between Example A Between–Within Example A Within–Within Example SummaryChapter 15. Analysis of Covariance Relationship Between ANOVA and Regression ANCOVA and Statistical Power Assumptions in ANCOVA The Pretest–Posttest Control Group Design Pairwise Comparisons SummaryChapter 16. Analysis of Nonparametric Data Chi-Square (Single Classification) Chi-Square (Two or More Classifications) Rank Order Correlation Mann-Whitney U Test Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA for Ranked Data Friedman’s Two-Way ANOVA by Ranks SummaryChapter 17. Clinical Measures of Association Relative Risk Odds Ratio Diagnostic Testing SummaryChapter 18. Advanced Statistical Procedures Multilevel Modeling Meta-Analysis Multiple Analysis of Variance Factor Analysis Discriminant Analysis Summary Appendix: Statistical Tables
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd COVID-19: The Postgenomic Pandemic
Book SynopsisWithin days of the first reports of patients suffering from a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, scientists in China had produced a complete genetic sequence of the virus and confirmed that it was a novel SARS-like coronavirus. The genetic sequence was deposited in a public database, making the genetic code available to scientists anywhere in the world. The result was that weeks before the WHO declared the outbreak a global public health emergency and months before COVID-19 was formally designated a pandemic, virologists around the world were already studying the protein spikes on the virus and designing vaccines, which were developed much more quickly, and turned out to be much more effective, than even the most optimistic had predicted. All of this was possible because a biological revolution had taken place a decade earlier: the world had moved into the postgenomic era. In this book, the distinguished microbiologist Hugh Pennington argues that COVID-19 is the first ‘postgenomic pandemic’ – that is, the first pandemic to sweep the world after the postgenomic era was initiated in 2008. Pennington explains the science behind this crucial development and shows how it has revolutionized our ways of understanding and dealing with pandemics, including the pandemic that brought our world to its knees.Trade Review‘A great read, making science accessible to all and demonstrating how advances build on previous science investments in leaps and bounds.’Dame Sally Davies, Master, Trinity College Cambridge ‘A scholarly and intellectually stimulating contribution which covers COVID-19 and sets this in the context of infectious diseases past and present. Pennington’s explanation of the molecular biological aspects of infectious diseases, which are of critical importance in diagnosis and vaccination, is a joy to read, even for those with limited experience.’Professor Jangu Banatvala, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, King’s College London'informative'NatureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword 1 The Postgenomic Age; its antecedents 2 Coronaviruses, the beginning 3 COVID-19, the disease 4 Origins. December 2019- January 2020 5 Fangcangs and Nightingales. February-April 2020 6 Test test test! March 2020 7 The Epidemiologic Transition 8 Outbreaks - learning in real time 9 Whole Genome Sequencing 10 Variants 11 Vaccines 12 Pandemics 13 The Future Notes
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American Society for Microbiology One Health: People, Animals, and the Environment
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic
Book SynopsisBased on research by a leading geographer and specialist in diffusion theory, The Slow Plague discloses the geographic dimension of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding areas. Four case studies at different geographic scales demonstrate the devastating effects of the disease. In Africa the situation is catastrophic, in Thailand it is rapidly becoming so. In the US there are over 300,000 people with AIDS and more than one million infected by the HIV. The relationships between poverty, drugs and HIV infection are brought out poignantly in a chapter about the Bronx. The author argues that a real understanding of AIDS has been hampered by conscious or unconscious beliefs that those affected are, and will continue to be, confined to specific minority groups and to parts of the Third World. He shows that such views have led to fundamental misconceptions about the pattern of the spread of the disease and about those who will be most at risk, now and in the immediate future.Trade Review"Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The author's wide-ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion." Nature "The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research." Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases "This fascinating book should attract a wide readership." Applied Geography "The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term 'alarming' because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world-wide by the year 2000." "Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the 'forest' and never letting the reader get lost in the 'trees'." "This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow-minded investigators." Australian Geographical StudiesTable of ContentsList of maps and figures. Preface: Why a geographer writes about AIDS. Acknowledgements: Intellectual Antennae. Prologue: New Plagues for Old: The Horseman Rides Again. 1. The Killer: HIV and What it does. 2. The Origins of HIV: Closing an Open Question?. 3. The Thin Tendrils of Effects. 4. Sex on a Set: A Backcloth for Disaster. 5. Transmission Break: The Geography of the Condom. 6. How Things Spread: Hierarchical Jumps and Geographic Oozings. 7. Africa: A Continent in Catastrophe. 8. Thailand: How to Optimize an Epidemic. 9. America: Leaks in the System. 10. The Bronx: Poverty, Crack and HIV. 11. The Response: How Many Bureaucrats can Dance on the Head of a Pin?. 12. Time but no Space: the Failure of a Paradigm. 13. The Geography in Confidentiality. 14. Education and Planning: Predicting the Next Maps. 15. Herd Immunity: Riding the Coattails of the HIV. 16. Epilogue: Old Plagues for New. Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rickettsioses: From Genome to Proteome,
Book SynopsisRickettsial diseases have affected humanity since the dawn of civilization. Despite the advent of effective antibiotic therapy, humans continue to be afflicted by rickettsial diseases, which still often go undiagnosed because of their protean clinical manifestations. During the past decade, several major developments have occurred in rickettsiology. With the advent of the newly emerging infections caused by a number of rickettsias, the re-emerging of old pathogenic species of rickettsias that cause both old and new syndromes has helped redefine the level of rickettsial pathogenicity. The intracellular nature of most rickettsias remains a mystery although their genome size is close to that of the free-living neisserias. Advances in molecular techniques have also helped redefine and reclassify rickettsias by maintaining some in the order Rickettsiales and placing others in other bacterial orders. The latter are still included in rickettsial reviews because of historical precedence. These molecular advances also help us to refine our knowledge of rickettsial pathogenesis. This volume is the first of two volumes to result from the 4th International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases, in which an effort is made to address and clarify issues from clinical, diagnostic, epidemiologic, and molecular perspectives that have remained unsolved in the past. In this volume, several subdisciplines of rickettsiology are included: genomics and proteomics, a protocol for naming newly isolated rickettsiae; bioterrorism; the pathobiology of reckettsial infections including Q (query) fever, antibiotic resistance, and vaccines; the discovery of new ricketsiae; and the pathobiology of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma infections. This volume. along with Century of Rickettsiology, which will be published in 2006 as an Annals volume, will provide a complete picture of the world-wide range of work that is currently being carried out in the field of rickettsiology. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.Table of ContentsIntroduction:. New Insights into Rickettsioses: Genomics, Proteomics, Pathobiology, and the International Threat of Rickettsial Diseases: Introduction: Karim E. Hechemy, José A. Oteo, Didier Raoult, David J. Silverman, and José Ramón Blanco. Naming of Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases: Didier Raoult, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Marina Eremeeva, Stephen Graves, Patrick J. Kelly, José A. Oteo, Zuzana Sekeyova, Akira Tamura, Irina Tarasevich, And Lijuan Zhang. . Part I: Genomics and Proteomics:. 1. Progress in Rickettsial Genome Analysis from Pioneering of Rickettsia prowazekii to the Recent Rickettsia typhi: David H. Walker and Xue-Jie Yu. 2. Rickettsia felis, from Culture to Genome Sequencing: H Ogata, C Robert, S Audic, S Robineau, G Blanc, P E Fournier, P Renesto, J M Claverie, and D Raoult. 3. Dissecting the Rickettsia prowazekii Genome: Genetic and Proteomic Approaches: Aimee M. Tucker, Lewis K. Pannell, and David O. Wood. 4. New Perspectives on Rickettsial Evolution from New Genome Sequences of Rickettsia, particularly R. canadensis, and Orientia tsutsugamushi: Marina E. Eremeeva, Anup Madan, Chris D. Shaw, Kevin Tang, and Gregory A. Dasch. 5. Preliminary Assessment of Genome Differences between the Reference Nine Mile Isolate and Two Human Endocarditis Isolates of Coxiella burnetii: Paul A. Beare, Stephen F. Porcella, Rekha Seshadri, James E. Samuel, and Robert A. Heinzen. 6. Fur-Regulated Genes in Coxiella burnetii: Heather L. Briggs, Mary J. Wilson, Rekha Seshadri, and James E. Samuel. 7. A Minimal Set of DNA Repair Genes Is Sufficient for Survival of Coxiella burnetii under Oxidative Stress: K Mertens, L Lantsheer, and J E Samuel. 8. Identification, Cloning, and Expression of Potential Diagnostic Markers for Q Fever: C C Chao, H W Chen, X Li, W B Xu, B Hanson, and W M Ching. 9. Preliminary Transcriptional Analysis of spoT Gene Family and of Membrane Proteins in Rickettsia conorii and Rickettsia felis: C Rovery, M V La, S Robineau, K Matsumoto, P Renesto, and D Raoult. 10. Phylogenic Analysis of Rickettsial Patatin-like Protein with Conserved Phospholipase A2 Active Sites: Guillaume Blanc, Patricia Renesto, and Didier Raoult. 11. Proteomic Analysis of Rickettsia prowazekii: C C Chao, D Chelius, T Zhang, E Mutumanje, and W M Ching. 12. Rickettsia conorii and R. prowazekii Proteome Analysis by 2DE-MS: A Step toward Functional Analysis of Rickettsial Genomes: Patricia Renesto, Saïd Azza, Alain Dolla, Patrick Fourquet, Guy Vestris, Jean-Pierre Gorvel, and Didier Raoult. 13. Phylogenetic Study of Rickettsia Species Using Sequences of the Autotransporter Protein-Encoding Gene sca2: Maxime Ngwamidiba, Guillaume Blanc, Hiroyuki Ogata, Didier Raoult, and Pierre-Edouard Fournier. 14. Molecular Characterization of a Group of Proteins Containing Ankyrin Repeats in Orientia tsutsugamushi: Nam-Hyuk Cho, Jo-Min Kim, Eun-Kyung Kwon, Se-Yoon Kim, Seung-Hoon Han, Hyuk Chu, Jung-Hee Lee, Myung-Sik Choi, and Ik-Sang Kim. 15. Ehrlichia ruminantium: A Promiscuous Genome: Maria Allsopp, Helena Steyn, Erich Zweygarth, and Basil Allsopp. Part II: Pathobiology of Q Fever Infection:. 16. Coxiella burnetii Infection: Jan Kazar. 17. Coxiella burnetii Whole Cell Lysate Protein Identification by Mass Spectrometry and Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Ludovit Skultety, Lenka Hernychova, Rudolf Toman, Martin Hubalek, Katarina Slaba, Jana Zechovska, Veronika Stofanikova, Juraj Lenco, Jiri Stulik, and Ales Macela. 18. Replication of Coxiella burnetii Is Inhibited in CHO K-1 Cells Treated with Inhibitors of Cholesterol Metabolism: Dale Howe and Robert A. Heinzen. 19. Protective Immunity against Q Fever Induced with a Recombinant P1 Antigen Fused with HspB of Coxiella burnetii: Qingfeng Li, Dongsheng Niu, Bohai Wen, Meiling Chen, Ling Qiu, and Jingbo Zhang. 20. Immunization Experiments with Recombinant Coxiella burnetii Proteins in a Murine Infection Model: Judith Tyczka, Sandra Eberling, and Georg Baljer. 21. Structural and Functional Characterization of the Glycan Antigens Involved in Immunobiology of Q Fever: Pavol Vadovic, Katarina Slaba, Marcela Fodorova, Ludovit Skultety, and Rudolf Toman. 22. Lack of Dendritic Cell Maturation Following Infection by Coxiella burnetii Synthesizing Different Lipopolysaccharide Chemotypes: Jeffrey G. Shannon, Dale Howe, and Robert A. Heinzen. 23. TLR2 Is Necessary to Inflammatory Response in Coxiella burnetii Infection: Soraya Meghari, Amélie Honstettre, Hubert Lepidi, Bernardt Ryffel, Didier Raoult, and Jean-Louis Mege. 24. Comparative Virulence of Phase I and II Coxiella burnetii in Immunodeficient Mice: Masako Andoh, Kasi E. Russell-Lodrigue, Guoquan Zhang, and James E. Samuel. 25. Balb/c Mouse Model and Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction for Evaluation of the Immunoprotectivity against Q Fever: Jingbo Zhang, Bohai Wen, Meiling Chen, Jun Zhang, and Dongsheng Niu. 26. Hepatitis Associated with C. burnetii Isolates: K E Russell-Lodrigue, M W J Poels, G Q Zhang, D N Mcmurray, and J E Samuel. 27. Q Fever Research Group (QRG), Adelaide: Activities-Exit Summary 1980-2004: B Marmion, R Harris, P Storm, K Helbig, I Penttila, D Worswick, and L Semendric. Part III: Pathobiology of Rickettsial Infection, Antibiotic Resistance, and Vaccines:. 28. Rickettsial Infections: Juan P. Olano. 29. The Presence of Eschars, but Not Greater Severity, in Portuguese Patients Infected with Israeli Spotted Fever: Rita De Sousa, Nahed Ismail, Sónia Dória-Nóbrega, Pedro Costa, Tiago Abreu, Ana França, Mário Amaro, Paula Proença, Paula Brito, José Poças, Teresa Ramos, Graça Cristina, Graça Pombo, Liliana Vitorino, Jorge Torgal, Fátima Bacellar, and David Walker. 30. Similarities and Differences in Host Cell Signaling following Infection with Different Rickettsia Species: Elena Rydkina, David J. Silverman, and Sanjeev K. Sahni. 31. Potential Roles for Regulatory Oxygenases in Rickettsial Pathogenesis: Sanjeev K. Sahni, Elena Rydkina, Abha Sahni, Suresh G. Joshi, and David J. Silverman. 32. Growth of Typhus Group and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Insect Cells: Tsuneo Uchiyama. 33. Genome Comparison Analysis of Molecular Mechanisms of Resistance to Antibiotics in the Rickettsia Genus: J M Rolain And D Raoult. 34. Cloning and Sequence Analysis of the 22-kDa Antigen Genes of Orientia tsutsugamushi Strains Kato, TA763, AFSC 7, 18-032460, TH1814, and MAK 119: Hong Ge, Min Tong, Andrew Li, Rajan Mehta, and Wei-Mei Ching. 35. Nitric Oxide as a Mediator of Increased Microvascular Permeability during Acute Rickettsioses: Michael E. Woods, Gary Wen, and Juan P. Olano. 36. Cloning and Expression of 51-kDa Antigenic Protein of Neorickettsia risticii NR-JA1: Myeong-Kyu Park, Eun-Ha Kim, Mae-Rim Cho, Ying-Hua Yi, Mi-Jin Lee, Devendra H. Shah, Jin-Ho Park, Bae-Keun Park, Seong-Kug Eo, John-Hwa Lee, and Joon-Seok Chae. 37. Activity of Telithromycin against Thirteen New Isolates of C. burnetii Including Three Resistant to Doxycycline: Jean-Marc Rolain, Frédéric Lambert, and Didier Raoult. 38. Effect of Antibiotic Treatment in Patients with DEBONEL/TIBOLA: V Ibarra, J R Blanco, A Portillo, S Santibáñez, L Metola, and J A Oteo. 39. Structural Features of Lipopolysaccharide from Rickettsia Typhi: The Causative Agent of Endemic Typhus: Marcela Fodorova, Pavol Vadovic, Ludovit Skultety, Katarina Slaba, and Rudolf Toman. 40. Analysis of Immunoprotectivity of the Recombinant OmpA of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis: Yanmei Jiao, Bohai Wen, Meiling Chen, Dongsheng Niu, Jun Zhang, and Ling Qiu. 41. Short- and Long-Term Immune Responses of CD-1 Outbred Mice to the Scrub Typhus DNA Vaccine Candidate: p47Kp: Guang Xu, Suchismita Chattopadhyay, Ju Jiang, Teik-Chye Chan, Chien-Chung Chao, Wei-Mei Ching, and Allen L. Richards. Part IV: Bartonella:. 42. Bartonellae as Elegant Hemotropic Parasites: Richard J. Birtles. 43. Production of Recombinant Protein Pap31 and Its Application for the Diagnosis of Bartonella bacilliformis Infection: A Taye, H Chen, K Duncan, Z Zhang, L Hendrix, J Gonzalez, and W Ching. 44. Bartonella bacilliformis GroEL: Effect on Growth of Human Vascular Endothelial Cells in Infected Cocultures: Laura S. Smitherman and Michael F. Minnick. 45. Occurrence of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients: M Pape, P Kollaras, K Mandraveli, A Tsona, S Metallidis, P Nikolaidis, and S Alexiou-Daniel. 46. Bacillary Angiomatosis Caused by Bartonella Quintana: Montserrat Sala, Bernat Font, Isabel Sanfeliu, Mariela Quesada, Imma Ponts, and Ferran Segura. 47. Molecular Screening of Bartonella Species in Rodents from the Russian Far East: Oleg Mediannikov, Leonid Ivanov, Nina Zdanovskaya, Nelya Vysochina, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Irina Tarasevich, and Didier Raoult. 48. Characterization of Genes Involved in Long-Term Bacteremia in Mice by Bartonella birtlesii: Maria Mavris, Henri Saenz, Martine Monteil, Henri-Jean Boulouis, Christoph Dehio, and Muriel Vayssier-Taussat. Part V: New Rickettsiae or Rickettsiae Not Previously or Recently Known to Cause Human Infection:. 49. Rickettsia parkeri as a Paradigm for Multiple Causes of Tick-Borne Spotted Fever in the Western Hemisphere: Christopher D. Paddock. 50. Detection of a Typhus Group Rickettsia in Amblyomma Ticks in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico: Aaron Medina-Sanchez, Donald H. Bouyer, Virginia Alcantara-Rodriguez, Claudio Mafra, Jorge Zavala-Castro, Ted Whitworth, Vsevolod L. Popov, Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas, and David H. Walker. 51. Detection of a Non-Pathogenic Variant of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus from La Rioja, Spain: A Portillo, A S Santos, S Santibáñez, L Pérez-Martínez, J R Blanco, V Ibarra, and J A Oteo. 52. Phylogenetic Analysis of a Novel Molecular Isolate of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae from Northern Peru: Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae: Ju Jiang, Patrick J. Blair, Vidal Felices, Cecilia Moron, Manuel Cespedes, Elizabeth Anaya, George B. Schoeler, John W. Sumner, James G. Olson, and Allen L. Richards. 53. Molecular and Biological Characterization of a Novel Coxiella-like Agent from Carios capensis: Will K. Reeves, Amanda D. Loftis, Rachael A. Priestley, William Wills, Felicia Sanders, And Gregory A. Dasch. 54. DEBONEL/TIBOLA: Is Rickettsia slovaca the Only Etiological Agent?: V Ibarra, A Portillo, S Santibáñez, J R Blanco, L Pérez-Martínez, J Márquez, And J A Oteo. 55. Low Risk of Developing Human Rickettsia aeschlimannii Infection in the North of Spain: J A Oteo, A Portillo, J R Blanco, V Ibarra, L Pérez-Martínez, C Izco, A Pérez-Palacios, and S Jiménez. 56. Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae (SFGR) Infecting Amblyomma americanum Ticks in Ohio, USA: D J Kelly, J R Carmichael, G C Booton, K F Poetter, And P A Fuerst. 57. Old and New Human Rickettsiosis in Minas Gerais State, Brazil: S B Calic, C M Barcellos-Rocha, R C Leite, C L Mafra, and M A M Galvão. 58. Ehrlichia ruminantium: An Emerging Human Pathogen?: M T E P Allsopp, M Louw, And E C Meyer. Part VI: Pathobiology of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma Infections:. 59. Anaplasma and Ehrlichia Infection: J Stephen Dumler. 60. The Interactions of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Endothelial Cells, and Human Neutrophils: Michael J. Herron, Marna E. Ericson, Timothy J. Kurtti, and Ulrike G. Munderloh. 61. Balancing Protective Immunity and Immunopathology: A Unifying Model of Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis: Nahed Ismail and David H. Walker. 62. Susceptibility and Resistance to Monocytic Ehrlichiosis in the Mouse: Gary M. Winslow, Constantine Bitsaktsis, and Eric Yager. 63. Overcoming Barriers to the Transformation of the Genus Ehrlichia: S Wesley Long, Ted J. Whitworth, David H. Walker, and Xue-Jie Yu. 64. Mechanisms of Immunological Control of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Mice: Christina Rinkler, Yvonne Kern, Christian Bogdan, and Friederike D. Von Loewenich. 65. Platelet Dysfunction after Association with Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Vitro: Dori L. Borjesson, Jennifer L. Brazzell, and Regina Feferman. 66. Anaplasma phagocytophilum Infection Reduces Expression of Phagocytosis-Related Receptors on Neutrophils: Justin W. A. Garyu and J Stephen Dumler. 67. Analysis of Ehrlichial p28 Gene Expression in a Murine Model of Persistent Infection: Patricia A. Crocquet-Valdes, Jere W. Mcbride, Hui-Min Feng, Nahed Ismail, Melissa A. Small, Xue-Jie Yu, and David H. Walker. 68. Innate Immune Tissue Injury and Murine HGA: Tissue Injury in the Murine Model of Granulocytic Anaplasmosis Relates to Host Innate Immune Response and Not Pathogen Load: Diana G. Scorpio, Friederike D. Von Loewenich, Christian Bogdan, and J Stephen Dumler. 69. Cytokine Responses in Dogs Infected with Ehrlichia canis Oklahoma Strain: Tomoko Tajima and Yasuko Rikihisa. 70. Molecular Characterization of E. canis gp36 and E. chaffeensis gp47 Tandem Repeats among Isolates from Different Geographic Locations: C Kuyler Doyle, Ana Maria Cardenas, Daniel M. Aguiar, Marcelo B. Labruna, Lucy M. Ndip, Xue-Jie Yu, and Jere W. Mcbride. 71. Prophylactic Use of Sustained-Release Doxycycline Blocks Tick-Transmitted Infection by Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a Murine Model: Robert F. Massung, Nordin S. Zeidner, Marc C. Dolan, Dawn Roellig, Elizabeth Gabitzsch, Danielle R. Troughton, and Michael L. Levin. 72. Concentration of Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein in Patients with Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and the Initial Phase of Tick-Borne Encephalitis: Stanka Lotric-Furlan, Tereza Rojko, and Franc Strle. Part VII: Ricketsiae Agents of Bioterrorism:. 73. Genome Analysis of Coxiella burnetii Species: Insights into Pathogenesis and Evolution and Implications for Biodefense: Rekha Seshadri and James Samuel. 74. Attack Scenarios with Rickettsial Species: Implications for Response and Management: G Pappas, N Akritidis, and E V Tsianos. 75. The Pathogen Resource Integration Center: Implications for Rickettsial Research: Mark E. Hance, Michael J. Czar, Abdu Azad, Anjan Purkayastha, Eric E. Snyder, Oswald R. Crasta, Joao C. Setubal, and Bruno W. Sobral. 76. Evaluation of Low Concentration Aerosol for Infecting Humans with the Q Fever Pathogen: Eugene Vorobeychikov, Alexander Vasilenko, Nikolay Tokarevich, Ludmila Yakovleva, and Boris Nikolaev. Index of Contributors
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Century of Rickettsiology: Emerging, Reemerging
Book SynopsisThe worldwide epidemiology of rickettsial diseases, including veterinary rickettsiology, is the focus of this volume, which is the second volume resulting from the 4th International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases. The heterogeneity of clinical presentations of rickettsial diseases is greater than had previously been appreciated, and atypical and previously unseen presentations are discussed here along with chapters on known vectors and vectors previously not known to transmit a given rickettsial species. This volume and volume 1063, New Insights into Rickettsioses, complete the picture presented at the conference of the wide range of work that is being carried out in rickettsiology worldwide. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a memberTable of ContentsOverview: A Century of Rickettsiology. (Karim E. Hechemy). Insights into Mechanisms of Bacterial Antigenic Variation Derived from the Complete Genome Sequence of Anaplasma Marginale. (Guy H. Palmer & Kelly A. Brayton.). Part I: Epidemiology of Rickettsial Disease. 1. Rickettsiosis in Europe. (J.R. Blanco & J.A.Oteo). 2. Epidemiology of Rickettsioses in North Africa. (Amel Letaief). 3. Rickettsioses in Sub-Saharan Africa. (P. Parola). 4. Rickettsial Diseases in Russia. Irina V. Tarasevich & Oleg Y. Mediannikov. 5. Rickettsioses in Japan and Far East. (Fumihiko Mahara). 6. Rickettioses in Australia. (Stephen Graves & John Stenos). 7. Ecology and Molecular Epidemiology of Tick-Borne Rickettsioses and Anaplasmoses with Natural Foci in Russia and Kazakhstan. (Nikolay Rudakov & Didier Raoult). 8. Far Eastern Tick-borne Rickettsiosis: Identification of Two New Cases and Tick Vector. (Oleg Mediannikov & Didier Raoult). 9. Seroprevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum among Forestry Rangers in Northern and North-eastern Poland. (Joanna Stańczak & Anna Grzeszczuk). 10. Seroprevalence of Human Anaplasmosis in Slovene Forestry Workers. (Tereza Rojko & Stanka Lotric-Furlan). 11. Molecular Epidemiology of Human and Bovine Anaplasmosis in Southern Europe. (Victoria Naranjo & José de la Fuente). 12. Human exposure to Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Portugal. (A.S. Santos & J.S. Dumler). 13. Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA) in North-Eastern Italy. (Anna Beltrame & Pierluigi Viale). 14. Human Infection with Ehrlichia Canis Accompanied by Clinical Ssigns in Venezuela. (Miriam Perez & Yasuko Rikihisa). 15. Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis and Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis in the United States, 2001– 2002. (Linda J. Demma & D.L. Swerdlow). 16. Anthropogenic Effects on Changing of Q Fever Epidemiology in Russia. (N.K.Tokarevicha & E.V.Vorobeichikov). 17. Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain (1984-2004), a Hyperendemic Area of Q Fever. (M. Montes & E. Perez-Trallero). 18. Serotesting of Human Q Fever Distribution on Wider Area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (S. Hamzić & Š. Zvizdić). 19. Ticks and Tick-borne Rickettsiae Surveillance in Montesinho Natural Park – Portugal. (M. Santos-Silva & F. Bacellar). 20. Current Knowledge of Rickettsial Diseases in Italy. (Lorenzo Ciceroni & Alessandra Ciervo). 21. No Serological Evidence for Rickettsial Diseases among Danish Elite Orienteers. (Peter Schiellerup & Karen A. Krogfelt). 22. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the United States, 1997 – 2002. (A.S. Chapman & D.L. Swerdlow). 23. Rickettsia Felis in the Americas: M.A.M. (Galvão & D.H. Walker). 24. Evidence of Infection in Humans with Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis in Catalonia, Northeast of Spain. (María Mercedes Nogueras & Ferran Segura). 25. Boutonneuse Fever and Climate Variability. (Rita de Sousa & Fatima Bacella). 26. Brazilian Spotted Fever. A Case-series from an Endemic Area in Southeastern Brazil: Epidemiological Aspects. (R.N. Angerami & L.J. Silva). 27. Prospective Evaluation of Rickettsioses in the Trakya (European) Region of Turkey and Atypic Presentations of Rickettsia Conorii. (F. Kuloglu & D. Raoult). 28. Reemergence of Rickettsiosis in Oran, Algeria. (N. Mouffok & D. Raoult). 29. Geoinformation Mapping of Siberian Tick-borne Rickettsiosis Foci in Altai Krai. (Nadezhda Yu.Kurepina & Nikolai V. Rudakov). 30. Methods of Isolation and Cultivation of New Rickettsiaer from Nozoarea of the North Asian Tick Typhus in Siberia. (I.E. Samoylenko & N.V. Rudakov). 31. Validation of a Rickettsia Prowazekii-specific Quantitative Real-time PCR Cassette and DNA Extraction Protocols Using Experimentally Infected Lice. (Patrick J. Rozmajzl & Allen L. Richards). 32. Detection and Identification of a Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia in Western Australia. (Helen Owen & Stan Fenwick). 33. Low Incidence of Tick-Borne Rickettsiosis in a Spanish Mediterranean Area. (A. Guerrero, F. Gimeno, M. Cuenca). Part II: Clinical Aspects and Diagnosis. 34. Rickettsia slovaca infection. Debonel/Tibola. (V. Ibarra & M. Sanz). 35. Arthropod-borne Diseases in Homeless. (Philippe Brouqui & Didier Raoult). 36. Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis. (Johan S. Bakken & J. Stephen Dumler). 37. Brazilian Spotted Fever. A Case-series from an Endemic Area in Southeastern Brazil: Clinical Aspects. (R.N. Angerami & L.J. Silva). 38. Revisiting Brazilian Spotted Fever Focus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais State, BRAZIL. (Mam Galvão & D.H. Walker). 39. Fatal Brazilian Spotted Fever Confirmed by Immunohistochemical Staining and Sequencing Methods on Fixed Tissues. (Tatiana Rozental & Elba R. S. Lemos). 40. Detection of Rickettsia rickettsii and Rickettsia spp. in 24 Patient Blood Clots from Different Municipalities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. (Flávia Sousa Gehrke & Teresinha Tizu Sato Schumake). 41. Rickettsia Side Effects on a Sexual Partner and Eradication Process of Rickettsia in the Infected Person: An Example of the Clare Effect. (Maurita C. McKay & Frank Parsons). 42. Mediterranean Spotted Fever in Crete Greece: Clinical and Therapeutic Data of 15 Consecutive Patients (A. Germanakis & Y. Tselentis). Part III: Vectors. 43. Prevalence of Rickettsia felis-like and Bartonella spp. in Ctenocephalides felis and Ctenocephalides canis from La Rioja (Northern Spain). (J.R. Blanco & J.A. Oteo). 44. The Prediction of Habitat Suitability for Ticks. (Agustín Estrada-Peña). 45. Natural Infection, Transovarial Transmission, and Transstadial Survival of Rickettsia bellii in the Tick Ixodes Loricatus (Acari: Ixodidae) from Brazil. (Mauricio C. Horta & Marcelo B. Labruna). 46. Prevalence of Bacterial Agents in Ixodes Persulcatus Ticks from Vologda Province of Russia. (Marina E. Eremeeva & Gregory A. Dasch). 47. Prevalence of Rickettsia felis in Ctenocephalides felis and Ctenocephalides canis from Uruguay. (J. M. Venzal & J. A. Oteo). 48. Highly Variable Year to Year Prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus Ticks in Northeastern Poland: Four Years Follow-up. (Anna Grzeszczuk & Joanna Stańczak). 49. Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Coxiella burnetii, Rickettsia spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. in Ticks, and Wild-living Animals in Western and Middle Slovakia. (Katarína Smetanová, Katarína Schwarzová & Elena Kocianová). 50. Prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Rickettsia spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato DNA in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from France. (Lénaïg Halos & Muriel Vayssier-Taussat). 51. Prevalence of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia (SFGR) Species Detected in Ticks in La Rioja, Spain. (J. A. Oteo & M. Sanz). 52. Prevalence of Rickettsia slovaca in Dermacentor marginatus Ticks Removed from Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) in Northeastern Spain. (A. Ortuño & F. Segura). 53. Prevalence Data of Rickettsia slovaca and Other SFG Rickettsiae Species in Dermacentor marginatus in Southeastern of the Iberian Peninsula. (F.J. Márquez & M.A. Muniain). 54. Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Ticks Feeding on Humans in Northwestern Spain. Is Rickettsia conorii vanishing? (Pedro Fernández-Soto & Antonio Encinas-Grandes). 55. A Rickettsial Mixed Infection in a Dermacentor variabilis Tick from Ohio. (Jennifer R. Carmichael & Paul A. Fuerst). 56. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Arizona: Documentation of Heavy Environmental Infestations of Rhipicephalus sanguineus at an Endemic Site. (William L. Nicholson & David Swerdlow). 57. Preliminary Report: An Outbreak of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Associated with a Novel Tick Vector, Rhipicephalus sanguineus — Arizona, 2004. (Linda J. Demma, W. L. Nicholson, J. McQuiston). 58. Incidence and Distribution Pattern of Rickettsia felis in Peridomestic Fleas from Andalusia (Southeast Spain). (F.J. Márquez & J. Pachón). 59. Molecular Identification of Rickettsia felis-like Bacteria in Haemaphysalis sulcata Ticks Collected from Domestic Animals in Southern Croatia. (Darja Duh & Tatjana Avšič-Županc). 60. Expression of rOmpA and rOmpB Protein in Rickettsia massiliae during Rhipicephalus turanicus Life Cycle. (Motohiko Ogawa & Philippe Brouqui). 61. Lice Infestation and Lice Control Remedies in Ukraine. (I. Kurhanova). 62. Prevalence of Rickettsia felis in the Fleas Ctenocephalides Felis Felis and Ctenocephalides canis from Two Indian Villages in São Paulo Municipality, Brazil. (Mauricio C. Horta & Teresinha T.S. Schumaker). 63. Population Survey of Egyptian Arthropods for Rickettsial Agents. (Amanda D. Loftis & Gregory A. Dasch). 64. First Molecular Detection of R. conorii, R. aeschlimannii, and R. massiliae in Ticks from Algeria. (I. Bitam & D. Raoult). 65. Ornithodoros moubata, a Soft Tick Vector for Rickettsia in East Africa? (Sally J. Cutler & Julie C. Scott). 66. Detection of Memebers of the Genera Rickettsia, Anaplasma, and Ehrlichia in Ticks Collected in the Asiatic Part of Russia. (Stanislav Shpynov & Didier Raoult). 67. Characterization of Dermacentor variabilis Molecules Associated with Rickettsial Infection. (Kevin R. Macaluso & Abdu F. Azad). 68. Ticks, Tick-borne Rickettsiae and Coxiella burnetii in the Greek island of Cephalonia. (A. Psaroulaki & Y. Tselentis). Part IV: Veterinary Rickettsiology. 69. Molecular Characterization of Rickettsia rickettsii Infecting Dogs and People in North Carolina. (Linda Kidd & Edward Breitschwerdt). 70. Bartonella Infection in Domestic Cats and Wild Felids. (Bruno B. Chomel & Sophie Molia). 71. Anaplasmosis: Focusing on Host-Vector-Pathogen Interactions for Vaccine Development. (José de la Fuente & Katherine M. Kocan). 72. New Findings on Members of the Family Anaplasmataceae of Veterinary Importance. (Yasuko Rikihisa). 73. Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ruminants in Europe. Zerai Woldehiwet. 74. Epidemiological Survey of Ehrlichia canis and Related Species Infection in Dogs in Eastern Sudan. (Hisashi Inokuma & Philippe Brouqui). 75. Surveys on Seroprevalence of Canine Monocytic Ehrlichiosis among Dogs Living in the Ivory Coast and Gabon and Evaluation of a Quick Commercial Test Kit Dot-ELISA. (Bernard Davoust & Daniel Parzy). 76. Reservoir Competency of Goats for Anaplasma phagocytophilum. (Robert F. Massung & Thomas N. Mather). 77. An Epidemiological Study on Anaplasma Infection in Cattle, Sheep and Goats in Mashhad Suburb, Khorasan Province, Iran. (G.R.Razmi & M.R. Aslani). 78. Cytokine Gene Expression by Peripheral Blood Leukocytes in Dogs Experimentally Infected with a New Virulent Strain of Ehrlichia canis. (Ahmet Unver & Yasuko Rikihisa). 79. Serological Evaluation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Infection in Livestock in North-Western Spain. (Inmaculada Amusategui, Ángel Sainz, Miguel Ángel Tesouro). 80. Anaplasma phagocytophilum Infection in Cattle in France. (Koutaro Matsumoto & Philippe Brouqui). 81. Understanding the Mechanisms of Transmission of Ehrlichia ruminantium and Its Influence on the Structure of Pathogen Populations in the Field. (Nathalie Vachiéry & Dominique Martinez). 82. Public-Health Problem of Zoonoses with Emphasis on Q Fever. (E. Bešlagić & Š. Zvizdić). 83. Incidence of Ovine Abortion by Coxiella burnetii in Northern Spain. (B. Oporto … & A. L. Garcia-Perez). 84. Detection of Coxiella burnetii in Market Chicken Eggs and Mayonnaise. (Noriyuki Tatsumi & Kazuo Yamaguchi). 85. The Efficacy of Several Anti-tick Treatments to Prevent the Transmission of Rickettsia conorii under Natural Conditions. (A. Estrada-Peña & Miguel Servet). 86. The Occurrence of Spotted Fever Group (SFG) Rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Northern Poland. (Joanna Stańczak). 87. Molecular Survey of Ehrlichia canis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum from Blood of Dogs Living in Italy. (L. Solano-Gallego & M. Caldin). 88. Spotted Fever Group Rickettsial Infection in Dogs from Eastern Arizona. How Long Has It Been There?. (William L. Nicholson & Linda J. Demma). Part V: Isolation, Cell Culture, and Diagnostics. 89. Isolation of Rickettsia Rickettsii and Rickettsia bellii in Cell Culture from the Tick Amblyomma aureolatum in Brazil. (Adriano Pinter & Marcelo B. Labruna). 90. Multiplexed Serology in Atypical Bacterial Pneumonia. (Frédérique Gouriet & Didier Raoult). 91. Isolation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strain Ap-Variant 1 in a Tick-Derived Cell Line. (Robert F. Massung & Timothy J. Kurtti). 92. Human Anaplasmosis: the First Spanish Case Confirmed by PCR. (J. C. García & J. A. Oteo). 93. Two Cases of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in Sardinia-Italy, Confirmed by PCR. (S. Mastrandrea & G. Masala). 94. Multiplex Detection of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma Pathogens in Vertebrate and Tick Hosts by Real-Time RT-PCR. (Kamesh R. Sirigireddy & Roman R. Ganta). 95. Identification and Characterization of Coxiella burnetii Strains and Isolates Using Monoclonal Antibodies. (Z. Sekeyová & E. Kováčová). 96. Comparison of Four Commercially Available Assays for the Detection of IgM Phase II Antibodies to Coxiella Burnetii in the Diagnosis of Acute Q Fever. (Dimitrios Frangoulidis & Hermann Meyer). 97. Evaluation of a Real-time PCR SAssay to Detect Coxiella burnetii. (Silke R. Klee & Bernd Appel). 98. 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CABI Publishing Pandemic Influenza
Book SynopsisPandemic influenza is a re-emerging pathogen with serious public health consequences. The A(H1N1) pandemic in 2009/10 and the continuing threat to humans from avian influenza A(H5N1) and other novel influenza viruses have both underlined the importance of preparedness at local, national and international levels. With a strong emphasis on practicality, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the science and operational application of influenza epidemiology, virology and immunology, vaccinology, pharmaceutical and public health measures, biomathematical modelling, policy issues and ethics involved in preparing for and responding to pandemic influenza. Each chapter raises key questions and answers them in clear and concise sections, detailing relevant modelling studies and further reading. Comprehensively updated to incorporate major lessons from the 2009/10 pandemic, this second edition includes new contributions on surveillance, International Health Regulations, clinical management and local health service responses, illustrated with vibrant international case studies. Written in an easily accessible style by global experts, this is an essential text for students of public health and those involved in local, national and international pandemic preparedness and response.Table of Contentsa: Contributors b: Editor Biographies c: Foreword d: Acknowledgements e: Glossary 1: Epidemiology and clinical features of interpandemic influenza 2: Influenza surveillance and pandemic requirements 3: Basic influenza virology and immunology,br>Influenza in birds and mammals 4: History and epidemiological features of pandemic influenza 5: Epidemiology of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 6: Clinical features and treatment of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 7: Influenza transmission and infection control issues 8: Pandemic preparedness 9: Emergency preparedness and business continuity planning 10: The role of exercises in pandemic preparedness 11: Local health services responses to the 2009 pandemic 12: Bio-mathematical modelling and pandemic preparedness 13: Pharmaceutical Interventions 14: Pandemic vaccines 15: National and international public health measures 16: Port Health and International Health Regulations 17: Socio-economic impact 18: Ethical issues related to pandemic preparedness and response 19: Pandemic Communication Case Study 1: Mexico Case Study 2: Chile Case Study 3: New Zealand Case Study 4: The former Soviet Union Case Study 5: Africa Case Study 6: Denmark Case Study 7: South East Asia Case Study 8: North America Case Study 9: Saudi Arabia f: Index
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CABI Publishing Pandemic Influenza
Book SynopsisPandemic influenza is a re-emerging pathogen with serious public health consequences. The A(H1N1) pandemic in 2009/10 and the continuing threat to humans from avian influenza A(H5N1) and other novel influenza viruses have both underlined the importance of preparedness at local, national and international levels. With a strong emphasis on practicality, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the science and operational application of influenza epidemiology, virology and immunology, vaccinology, pharmaceutical and public health measures, biomathematical modelling, policy issues and ethics involved in preparing for and responding to pandemic influenza. Each chapter raises key questions and answers them in clear and concise sections, detailing relevant modelling studies and further reading. Comprehensively updated to incorporate major lessons from the 2009/10 pandemic, this second edition includes new contributions on surveillance, International Health Regulations, clinical management and local health service responses, illustrated with vibrant international case studies. Written in an easily accessible style by global experts, this is an essential text for students of public health and those involved in local, national and international pandemic preparedness and response.Table of Contentsa: Contributors b: Editor Biographies c: Foreword d: Acknowledgements e: Glossary 1: Epidemiology and clinical features of interpandemic influenza 2: Influenza surveillance and pandemic requirements 3: Basic influenza virology and immunology,br>Influenza in birds and mammals 4: History and epidemiological features of pandemic influenza 5: Epidemiology of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 6: Clinical features and treatment of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 7: Influenza transmission and infection control issues 8: Pandemic preparedness 9: Emergency preparedness and business continuity planning 10: The role of exercises in pandemic preparedness 11: Local health services responses to the 2009 pandemic 12: Bio-mathematical modelling and pandemic preparedness 13: Pharmaceutical Interventions 14: Pandemic vaccines 15: National and international public health measures 16: Port Health and International Health Regulations 17: Socio-economic impact 18: Ethical issues related to pandemic preparedness and response 19: Pandemic Communication Case Study 1: Mexico Case Study 2: Chile Case Study 3: New Zealand Case Study 4: The former Soviet Union Case Study 5: Africa Case Study 6: Denmark Case Study 7: South East Asia Case Study 8: North America Case Study 9: Saudi Arabia f: Index
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CABI Publishing Biological and Environmental Control of Disease
Book SynopsisCovering the theory and practice of non-insecticidal control of insect vectors of human disease, this book provides an overview of methods including the use of botanical biocides and insect-derived semiochemicals, with an overall focus on integrated vector management strategies. While the mainstay of malaria control programmes relies on pesticides, there is a resurgence in the research and utilisation of non-insecticidal control measures due to concerns over rapid development and spread of insecticide resistance, and long-term environmental impacts. This book provides examples of successful applications in the field and recommendations for future use.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Control with Arthropods 3: Use of Larvivorous Fish in Biological and Environmental Control of Disease Vectors 4: The Use of Plants in Vector Control 5: Control of Disease Vectors using Fungi 6: Vector Control using Semiochemicals 7: House Screening 8: Sanitation and Vector Control 9: Water Management for Disease Vector Control 10: Integrated Vector Management 11: Evidence Required for Adoption of New Vector Control Methods in Public Health
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Policy Press The public health system in England
Book SynopsisHealth systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, including from lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change but health inequalities continue to widen. Such developments have profound implications for the future direction of public health policy and practice. The public health system in England offers a wide-ranging, provocative and accessible assessment of challenges confronting a public health system, exploring how its parameters have shifted and what the origins of dilemmas in public health practice are. The book will therefore appeal to public health professionals and students of health policy, potentially engaging them in political and social advocacy. Trade Review"...I have found this to be an enjoyable, informative and thought provoking read that I recommend to anyone for an introduction to the English public health system and how it has developed since 1974." David Edwards in Public Health Today"An important new review of an old and intractable problem: our health system is incapable of keeping people healthy. This trenchant analysis must help to kick-start a radical shift in policy and practice." Anna Coote, New Economics FoundationTable of ContentsIntroduction; Public health and a public health system; The evolution of the public health function in England (1) 1974-97; The evolution of the public health function in England (2) 1997-2009; Current issues in the public health system in England; Looking to the future.
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Policy Press The public health system in England
Book SynopsisHealth systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, including from lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change but health inequalities continue to widen. Such developments have profound implications for the future direction of public health policy and practice. The public health system in England offers a wide-ranging, provocative and accessible assessment of challenges confronting a public health system, exploring how its parameters have shifted and what the origins of dilemmas in public health practice are. The book will therefore appeal to public health professionals and students of health policy, potentially engaging them in political and social advocacy. Trade Review"...I have found this to be an enjoyable, informative and thought provoking read that I recommend to anyone for an introduction to the English public health system and how it has developed since 1974." David Edwards in Public Health Today"An important new review of an old and intractable problem: our health system is incapable of keeping people healthy. This trenchant analysis must help to kick-start a radical shift in policy and practice." Anna Coote, New Economics FoundationTable of ContentsIntroduction; Public health and a public health system; The evolution of the public health function in England (1) 1974-97; The evolution of the public health function in England (2) 1997-2009; Current issues in the public health system in England; Looking to the future.
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Policy Press What Works in Reducing Inequalities in Child
Book SynopsisThe UK has a deservedly strong reputation for work on understanding social inequalities in health, but there is some way to go in using research and other types of knowledge to reduce inequalities in child health. This revised and updated edition of an important report looks at macro public policy interventions, community interventions, and individual level interventions in a variety of settings, including infancy, early years, childhood, adolescence, and particular needs including looked after children. It considers 'what works' - or might work - in practice. There are new case studies, updated research references, and new reference to cost effectiveness - all relevant for doing the right thing in a climate of austerity. Drawing on evidence from the UK and beyond, the book presents these in an accessible form, not just for those who make decisions now, but also for the students of today who are the decision makers of tomorrow. The book is supported by a companion website, containing additional materials for both students and lecturers, which is available from the link above.Trade Review"This book is a compelling comprehensive read, providing context and solutions to child health inequalities based on evidence and rights, engendering hope for long term systemic changes and child health improvements." Elizabeth Waters, The Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program and The McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia"Highly accessible. This book should be required reading for public health students and it would be a good addition to many social policy reading lists." Critical Public Health journal"A timely text that pulls together the core issues relevant to those wishing to reduce inequalities in child health" Helen Farasat, Bournemouth University"This wonderful book tells us we know a lot about inequalities in children's health but less about what to do. It presents information and ideas to help make these decisions." Terence Stephenson, President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health"This superbly crafted book is essential reading for all those wishing to right some serious wrongs in our society. Roberts puts the evidence and the power in our hands. " Penny Hawe, Population Health Intervention Research Centre, University of Calgary, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Inequalities and health; What are the causes of ill health and inequalities in health?; What do health inequalities mean for children?; Why do inequalities matter?; Poverty, inequality and the NHS; Death and disease in childhood; Policy reports and the importance of prevention; What works?; Research, policy and practice; And when there is no evidence?: What kinds of studies help us understand what works?: The challenge of evaluation at a local level; Does it work? How can we design and deliver effective services?; Systematic reviews; The contribution of different research designs; An assets-based approach drawing on lay and scientific evidence; What doesn't work?; Making it work: What works in early life? Infancy and the pre-school period: Death in and before the first year; What works in making a difference?; Cost-effectiveness and early intervention; An intervention not to be tried at home; What works in childhood and adolescence?: What are the problems?; What are some of the solutions?; Education; Disabled children and their families; Adolescence; Teenage pregnancy; Young smokers; Mental health and substance abuse; Tackling obesity in children and young people; What may not help; What works in keeping children safe?: What doesn't work?; What works in making a difference?; Drawing on children and parents' safe-keeping strategies - or what are people doing right?; Child safety and local authorities which consult parents and children; Child protection (non-accidental injury): What works for vulnerable groups?: Background; General health and immunisation; Mental health and emotional well-being; Education; Settled safe accommodation; What helps?; Tackling the causes of the causes; Inequalities in child health; Context; Policies for directly addressing inequalities in child health; Policy implications of health inequalities research: dilemmas of advocacy; And finally.
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Rasch Models in Health
Book SynopsisThe family of statistical models known as Rasch models started with a simple model for responses to questions in educational tests presented together with a number of related models that the Danish mathematician Georg Rasch referred to as models for measurement. Since the beginning of the 1950s the use of Rasch models has grown and has spread from education to the measurement of health status. This book contains a comprehensive overview of the statistical theory of Rasch models. Part 1 contains the probabilistic definition of Rasch models, Part 2 describes the estimation of item and person parameters, Part 3 concerns the assessment of the data-model fit of Rasch models, Part 4 contains applications of Rasch models, Part 5 discusses how to develop health-related instruments for Rasch models, and Part 6 describes how to perform Rasch analysis and document results.Trade Review"This book contains a comprehensive overview of the statistical theory of Rasch models." (Zentralblatt MATH 2016)Table of ContentsI Probabilistic models 1 1 The Rasch model for dichotomous items 3 1.1 Introduction 4 1.1.1 original formulation of the model 4 1.1.2 Modern formulations of the model 7 1.2 Psychometric properties 8 1.2.1 Requirements of IRT models 9 1.2.2 Item Characteristic Curves 10 1.2.3 Guttman errors 10 1.2.4 Implicit assumptions 11 1.3 Statistical properties 11 1.3.1 The distribution of the total score 12 1.3.2 Symmetrical polynomials 13 1.3.3 Test characteristic curve (TCC) 14 1.3.4 Partial credit model parametrization of the score distribution 14 1.3.5 Rasch models for subscores 15 1.4 Inference frames 15 1.5 Specic objectivity 18 1.6 Rasch models as graphical models 19 1.7 Summary 20 2 Rasch models for ordered polytomous items 25 2.1 Introduction 26 2.1.1 Example 26 2.1.2 Ordered categories 26 2.1.3 Properties of the Polytomous Rasch model 30 2.1.4 Assumptions 32 2.2 Derivation from the dichotomous model 32 2.3 Distributions derived from Rasch models 37 2.3.1 The score distribution 37 2.3.2 Interpretation of thresholds in partial credit items and Rasch scores 39 2.3.3 Conditional distribution of item responses given the total score 39 2.4 Conclusion 39 2.4.1 Frames of inference for Rasch models 40 II Inference in the Rasch model 45 3 Estimation of item parameters 47 3.1 Introduction 48 3.2 Estimation of item parameters 50 3.2.1 Estimation using the conditional likelihood function 50 3.2.2 Pairwise conditional estimation 52 3.2.3 Marginal likelihood function 54 3.2.4 Extended likelihood function 55 3.2.5 Reduced rank parametrization 56 3.2.6 Parameter estimation in more general Rasch models 56 4 Person parameter estimation and measurement in Rasch models 59 4.1 Introduction and notation 60 4.2 Maximum likelihood estimation of person parameters 61 4.3 Item and test information functions 62 4.4 Weighted likelihood estimation of person parameters 63 4.5 Example 63 4.6 Measurement quality 65 4.6.1 Reliability in classical test theory 66 4.6.2 Reliability in Rasch models 67 4.6.3 Expected measurement precision 69 4.6.4 Targeting 69 III Checking the Rasch model 75 5 Itemt statistics 77 5.1 Introduction 78 5.2 Rasch model residuals 79 5.2.1 Notation 79 5.2.2 Individual response residuals: outts and ints 80 5.2.3 Group residuals 85 5.2.4 Group residuals for analysis of homogeneity 85 5.3 Molenaar's U 87 5.4 Analysis of item { restscore association 88 5.5 Group residuals and analysis of DIF 89 5.6 Kelderman's conditional likelihood ratio test of no DIF 90 5.7 Test for conditional independence in three-way tables 92 5.8 Discussion and recommendations 93 5.8.1 Technical issues 93 5.8.2 What to do when items do not agree with the Rasch model 95 6 Over-all tests of the Rasch model 99 6.1 Introduction 100 6.2 The conditional likelihood ratio test 100 6.3 Example: Diabetes and Eating habits 102 6.4 Other over-all tests of t 104 7 Local dependence 107 7.1 Introduction 108 7.1.1 Reduced rank parametrization model for sub tests 108 7.1.2 Reliability indexes 109 7.2 Local dependence in Rasch Models 109 7.2.1 Response dependence 110 7.3 E ects of response dependence on measurement 111 7.4 Diagnosing and detecting response dependence 114 7.4.1 Item t 114 7.4.2 Item residual correlations 116 7.4.3 Sub tests and reliability 118 7.4.4 Estimating the magnitude of response dependence 118 7.4.5 Illustration 119 7.5 Summary 124 8 Two tests of local independence 131 8.1 Introduction 132 8.2 Kelderman's conditional likelihood ratio test of local independence 132 8.3 Simple conditional independence tests 134 8.4 Discussion and recommendations 136 9 Dimensionality 139 9.1 Introduction 140 9.1.1 Background 140 9.1.2 Multidimensionality in health outcome scales 141 9.1.3 Consequences of multidimensionality 142 9.1.4 Motivating example: the HADS data 142 9.2 Multidimensional models 143 9.2.1 Marginal likelihood function 144 9.2.2 Conditional likelihood function 144 9.3 Diagnostics for detection of multidimensionality 144 9.3.1 Analysis of residuals 145 9.3.2 Observed and expected counts 145 9.3.3 Observed and expected correlations 147 9.3.4 The t-test approach 148 9.3.5 Using reliability estimates as diagnostics of multidimensionality 149 9.3.6 Tests of unidimensionality 150 9.4 Estimating the magnitude of multidimensionality 152 9.5 Implementation 153 9.6 Summary 153 IV Applying the Rasch model 161 10 The polytomous Rasch model and the equating of two instruments163 10.1 Introduction 164 10.2 The polytomous Rasch model 165 10.2.1 Conditional probabilities 166 10.2.2 Conditional estimates of the instrument parameters 167 10.2.3 An illustrative small example 169 10.3 Reparametrization of the thresholds 170 10.3.1 Thresholds reparametrized to two parameters for each instrument170 10.3.2 Thresholds reparametrized with more than two parameters 174 10.3.3 A reparametrization with four parameters 174 10.4 Tests of Fit 176 10.4.1 The conditional test of fit based on cell frequencies 176 10.4.2 The conditional test of fit based on class intervals 177 10.4.3 Graphical test of fit based on total scores 178 10.4.4 Graphical test of fit based on person estimates 179 10.5 Equating procedures 179 10.5.1 Equating using conditioning on total scores 180 10.5.2 Equating through person estimates 180 10.6 Example 180 10.6.1 Person threshold distribution 182 10.6.2 The test of t between the data and the model 182 10.6.3 Further analysis with the parametrization with two moments for each instrument 184 10.6.4 Equated scores based on the parametrization with two moments of the thresholds 190 10.7 Discussion 194 11 A multidimensional latent class Rasch model for the assessment of the Health-related Quality of Life 199 11.1 Introduction 200 11.2 The dataset 202 11.3 The multidimensional latent class Rasch model 205 11.3.1 Model assumptions 205 11.3.2 Maximum likelihood estimation and model selection 208 11.3.3 Software details 209 11.3.4 Concluding remarks about the model 210 11.4 Inference on the correlation between latent traits 211 11.5 Application results 214 12 Analysis of Rater Agreement by Rasch and IRT models 223 12.1 Introduction 224 12.2 An IRT model for modelling inter-rater agreement 224 12.3 Umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry and perinatal mortality 226 12.4 Quantifying the rater agreement in the Rasch model 227 12.4.1 Fixed Effects Approach 227 12.4.2 Random Effects approach and the median odds ratio 229 12.5 Doppler velocimetry and perinatal mortality 231 12.6 Quantifying the rater agreement in the IRT model 232 12.7 Discussion 233 13 From Measurement to Analysis: two steps or latent regression? 241 13.1 Introduction 242 13.2 Likelihood 243 13.2.1 Two-step model 244 13.2.2 Latent regression model 244 13.3 First step: Measurement models 245 13.4 Statistical Validation of Measurement Instrument 248 13.5 Construction of Scores 251 13.6 Two-step method to Analyze Change between Groups 253 13.6.1 Health related Quality of Life and Housing in Europe 253 13.6.2 Use of Surrogate in an Clinical Oncology trial 254 13.7 Latent Regression to Analyze Change between Groups 257 13.8 Conclusion 259 14 Analysis with repeatedly measured binary item response data byad hoc Rasch scales 265 14.1 Introduction 266 14.2 The generalized multilevel Rasch model 268 14.2.1 The multilevel form of the conventional Rasch model for binary items 268 14.2.2 Group comparison and repeated measurement 269 14.2.3 Differential item functioning and local dependence 270 14.3 The analysis of an ad hoc scale 272 14.4 Simulation study 277 14.5 Discussion 283 V Creating, translating, improving Rasch scales 287 15 Writing Health-Related Items for Rasch Models - Patient Reported Outcome Scales for Health Sciences: From Medical Paternalism to Patient Autonomy 289 15.1 Introduction 290 15.1.1 The emergence of the biopsychosocial model of illness 290 15.1.2 Changes in the consultation process in general medicine 291 15.2 The use of patient reported outcome questionnaires 292 15.2.1 Defining PRO constructs 293 15.2.2 Quality requirements for PRO questionnaires 298 15.3 Writing new Health-Related Items for new PRO scales 301 15.3.1 Consideration of measurement issues 302 15.3.2 Questionnaire Development 302 15.4 Selecting PROs for a clinical setting 305 15.5 Conclusions 305 16 Adapting patient-reported outcome measures for use in new lan- guages and cultures 313 16.1 Introduction 314 16.1.1 Background 314 16.1.2 Aim of the adaptation process 315 16.2 Suitability for adaptation 315 16.3 Translation Process 315 16.3.1 Linguistic Issues 316 16.3.2 Conceptual Issues 316 16.3.3 Technical Issues 316 16.4 Translation Methodology 317 16.4.1 Forward-backward translation 317 16.5 Dual-Panel translation 318 16.6 Assessment of psychometric and scaling properties 320 16.6.1 Cognitive debriefing interviews 320 16.6.2 Determining the psychometric properties of the new language version of the measure 322 16.6.3 Practice Guidelines 323 17 Improving items that do not fit the Rasch model 329 17.1 Introduction 330 17.2 The Rasch model and the graphical log linear Rasch model 330 17.3 The scale improvement strategy 332 17.3.1 Choice of modificational action 335 17.3.2 Result of applying the scale improvement strategy 339 17.4 Application of the strategy to the Physical Functioning Scale of the SF-36 340 17.4.1 Results of the GLLRM 340 17.4.2 Results of the subject matter analysis 341 17.4.3 Suggestions according to the strategy 342 17.5 Closing remark 345 VI Analyzing and reporting Rasch models 349 18 Software and program for Rasch Analysis 351 18.1 Introduction 352 18.2 Stand alone softwares packages 352 18.2.1 WINSTEPS 352 18.2.2 RUMM 353 18.2.3 Conquest 353 18.2.4 DIGRAM 354 18.3 Implementations in standard software 355 18.3.1 SAS macro for MML estimation: %ANAQOL 355 18.3.2 SAS Macros based on CML 356 18.3.3 eRm : an R Package 356 18.4 Fitting the Rasch model in SAS 356 18.4.1 Simulation of Rasch dichotomous items 356 18.4.2 MML Estimation of Rasch parameters using Proc NLMIXED 357 18.4.3 MML Estimation of Rasch parameters using Proc GLIMMIX 358 18.4.4 CML Estimation of Rasch parameters using Proc GENMOD 358 18.4.5 JML Estimation of Rasch parameters using Proc LOGISTIC 359 18.4.6 Loglinear Rasch model Estimation of Rasch parameters using Proc Logistic 360 18.4.7 Results 360 19 Reporting a Rasch analysis 363 19.1 Introduction 364 19.1.1 Objectives 364 19.1.2 Factors impacting a Rasch analysis report 364 19.1.3 The role of the substantive theory of the latent variable 366 19.1.4 The frame of reference 367 19.2 Suggested Elements 367 19.2.1 Construct: definition and operationalisation of the latent variable367 19.2.2 Response format and scoring 368 19.2.3 Sample and sampling design 368 19.2.4 Data 369 19.2.5 Measurement model and technical aspects 370 19.2.6 Fit analysis 370 19.2.7 Response scale suitability 371 19.2.8 Item fit assessment 372 19.2.9 Person fit assessment 372 19.2.10 Information 373 19.2.11Validated scale 374 19.2.12 Application and usefulness 375 19.2.13Further issues 376
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Emerald Publishing Limited Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. While many of the international articles focus on infectious disease, some discussion is given to treating psychiatric epidemics and the analysis of the political and cultural meanings that epidemics have. A sociological volume on emerging epidemics, covering psychiatric or psychological diseases as well as infectious disease is long overdue and topics included here are as wide ranging as: bipolar disorder; obesity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; SARS; West Nile Virus; pandemic influenzas; deviance; depression; ADHD; Alzheimer's; and autism. This valuable reference tool empirically examines emerging epidemics themselves and offers a theoretical analysis of the use of epidemics and epidemiology as frameworks for understanding these phenomena. It will appeal to a broad audience of readers of researchers and practitioners in this field, ranging from those involved in public health policy, human security and community health to medical sociologists and other scientists working in health and medicine.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Capitalism is making us sick: poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto. False perceptions and falciparum. Policy, polity, and the HIV crisis in emerging economies: India and Russia compared. The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited. Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic. Emerging and concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics and windows of opportunity: prevention and policy pitfalls. The social politics of pandemic influenzas: the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries. The poetics of American circumcision on the margins of medical necessity. Of rebels, conformists, and innovators: applying Merton's typology to explore an effective home care policy for the emerging Alzheimer's epidemic. ‘Promoted by Hong Tao, the Chlamydia Hypothesis Had Become Well Established...': Understanding the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epedemic - But Which One?. The rhetoric of science and statistics in claims of an autism epidemic. Bipolar disorder and the medicalization of mood: an epidemics of diagnosis?. What epidemic? The social construction of bipolar epidemics. The depression epidemic: how shifting definitions and industry practices shape perceptions of depression prevalence in the United States. Biomedicalizing mental illness: The case of attention deficit disorder. Contagious youth: deviance and the management of youth sociality. A social change model of the obesity epidemic. Who says obesity is an epidemic? How excess weight became an American health crisis. “Who are you calling ‘fat’?”: the social construction of the obesity epidemic. Advances in medical sociology. Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches. Copyright page.
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Policy Press Health inequalities: Lifecourse approaches
Book SynopsisThe lifecourse perspective on adult health and on health inequalities in particular, is one of the most important recent developments in epidemiology and public health. This book brings together, in a single volume, the work of one of the most distinguished academics in the field. It is the first to specifically take a lifecourse approach to health inequalities and will be essential reading for academics, students and policy makers with an interest in public health, epidemiology, health promotion and social policy.Trade Review"... a fascinating volume: provocative and challenging, often humorous but never dull." Health Service Journal"For anyone who teaches, writes or even has only a passing interest in the field of health inequalities this volume would definitely be value for money and a useful resource to have at hand. The readability of the papers will also lead to use by both undergraduate and graduate students alike." Health Economics"This book will become a classic for those interested in health inequalities." Jenny Roberts, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine"This book provides the epidemiological background for a new and important way of thinking about how and when we intervene to reduce health inequalities. Professor Davey Smith's research on the life course and health is truly innovative and unique. Many academics from diverse disciplines will want this as part of their permanent libraries." John Lynch, School of Public Health, University of Michigan"This book provides the epidemiological background for a new and important way of thinking about how and when we intervene to reduce health inequalities. Professor Davey Smith's research on the life course and health is truly innovative and unique. Many academics from diverse disciplines will want this as part of their permanent libraries." John Lynch, School of Public Health, University of MichiganTable of ContentsSection I: Patterns of health inequality; Health inequalities in Britain: continuing increases up to the end of the 20th century ~ Davey Smith, Dorling, Mitchell and Shaw, 2002; Shrinking areas and mortality ~ Davey Smith, Dorling and Shaw, 1998; Population change and mortality in men and women ~ Davey Smith, Shaw and Dorling, 2001; Area-based measures of social and economic circumstances: cause-specific mortality patterns depend on the choice of index ~ Davey Smith, Whitley, Dorling and Gunnell, 2001; Socioeconomic differentials in mortality risk among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: Part I - results for 300,685 white men ~ Davey Smith, Wentworth, Neaton, Stamler and Stamler, 1996; Socioeconomic differentials in mortality risk among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: Part II - results for 20,224 black men ~ Davey Smith, Neaton, Wentworth, Stamler and Stamler, 1996; Individual social class, area-based deprivation, cardiovascular disease risk-factors and mortality: the Renfrew and Paisley study ~ Davey Smith, Hart, Watt, Hole and Hawthorne, 1998; Is control at work the key to socioeconomic gradients in mortality? ~ Davey Smith and Harding, 1997; Section II: Voting and mortality; "I'm all right John": voting patterns and mortality in England and Wales, 1981-92 ~ Davey Smith and Dorling, 1996; Association between voting patterns and mortality remains ~ Davey Smith and Dorling, 1997; Analysis of trends in premature mortality by Labour voting in the 1997 General Election ~ Dorling, Davey Smith and Shaw, 2001; Section III: The Whitehall Study; Magnitude and causes of socioeconomic differentials in mortality: further evidence from the Whitehall Study ~ Davey Smith, Shipley and Rose, 1990; Confounding of occupation and smoking: its magnitude and consequences ~ Davey Smith and Shipley, 1991; Socioeconomic differentials in cancer among men ~ Davey Smith, Leon, Shipley and Rose, 1991; Section IV: Health and lifetime social circumstances: the Collaborative Study; Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study ~ Davey Smith, Hart, Blane, Gillis and Hawthorne, 1997; Education and occupational social class: which is the more important indicator of mortality risk? ~ Davey Smith, Hart, Hole, MacKinnon, Gillis, Watt, Blane and Hawthorne, 1998; Adverse socioeconomic conditions in childhood and cause-specific adult mortality: prospective observational study ~ Davey Smith, Hart, Blane and Hole, 1998; Socioeconomic factors as determinants of mortality ~ Davey Smith and Hart, 1998; Lifecourse socioeconomic and behavioural influences on cardiovascular disease: the Collaborative Study; ~ Davey Smith and Hart, 2002; Section V: Further lifecourse influences on health; Social circumstances in childhood and cardiovascular disease mortality: prospective observational study of Glasgow University students ~ Davey Smith, McCarron, Okasha and McEwen, 2001; Childhood socioeconomic position and adult cardiovascular mortality: the Boyd Orr cohort ~ Frankel, Davey Smith and Gunnell, 1999; Height and risk of death among men and women: aetiological implications of associations with cardiorespiratory disease and cancer mortality ~ Davey Smith, Hart, Upton, Hole, Gillis, Watt and Hawthorne, 2000; Leg length, insulin resistance, and coronary heart disease risk: the Caerphilly Study ~ Davey Smith, Greenwood, Gunnell, Sweetnam, Yarnell and Elwood, 2001; Section VI: Ethnicity and health inequalities; Ethnic inequalities in health: a review of UK epidemiological evidence ~ Davey Smith, Chaturvedi, Harding, Nazroo and Williams, 2000; Learning to live with complexity: ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and health in Britain and the US ~ Davey Smith, 2000; Mortality differentials between black and white men in the US: contribution of income and other risk factors among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) ~ Davey Smith, Neaton, Wentworth, Stamler and Stamler, 1998; Section VII: Diversions; Socioeconomic differentials in the mortality of pets: probably reflect the same differences in material circumstances as in their owners ~ Davey Smith and Bonnett, 1998; Death in Hollywood: life-style excess, social comparisons or publication bias? ~ Davey Smith, 2001; Sex and death: are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly Cohort Study ~ Davey Smith, Frankel and Yarnell, 1997; Health, health services and health politics in Britain: 1952-2002-2052 ~ Davey Smith, 2002; Section VIII: Health inequalities - past and present; Socioeconomic differentials in mortality: evidence from Glasgow graveyards ~ Davey Smith, Carroll, Rankin and Rowan, 1992; The ghost of Christmas past: the health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991 ~ Dorling, Mitchell, Shaw, Orford and Davey Smith, 2000; Does early nutrition affect later health? Views from the 1930s and 1980s ~ Davey Smith and Kuh, 1996; Section IX: Social inequality and population health; Income inequality and mortality: why are they related? ~ Davey Smith, 1996; Understanding it all: health, meta-theories, and mortality trends; ~ Davey Smith and Egger, 1996; Section X: Reducing health inequalities, now and in the future; The widening health gap: what are the solutions? ~ Davey Smith, Dorling, Gordon and Shaw, 1999; Inequalities in health: what is happening and what can be done? ~ Davey Smith and Ben-Shlomo, 1997; How policy informs the evidence - 'evidence-based' thinking can lead to debased policy making ~ Davey Smith, Ebrahim and Frankel, 2001; Rationing for health equity: is it necessary? ~ Davey Smith, Frankel and Ebrahim, 2000; Afterword: Still wanting to be James Dean ~ George Davey Smith.
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Policy Press Private complaints and public health: Richard
Book SynopsisRichard Titmuss was one of the 20th century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all their citizens.Trade Review"... extremely well put together. The contributor commentaries provide a contemporary perspective and the extensive cross-referencing helps the reader to locate specific information. In consequence, the book is both thoughtful and thought provoking." Journal of Social Policy"With the NHS undergoing the most fundamental change in its 56 year history, this book is a timely reminder of important policy dilemmas that we ignore at our peril. This collection of Titmuss's writings brings together remarkably prescient commentaries on aspects of health, health care, and the NHS." British Medical Journal"The selection of Titmuss's writings in the book under review demonstrate the range, scope and depth of his work on the organization and delivery of health care, and the humane spirit in which he writes. ... They show his ability to identify issues which still have much resonance and relevance today: notably inequalities in health." Health Economics, Policy and Law "Those who plan more 'modernisation' would do well to read and heed Titmuss's wise counsel. The implications for the medical care of older people are only too clear from the picture he paints. So too would many current academics, practitioners and students profit from reading this splendid book." Ageing & Society"It is important that students have access to the original writing of the 'greats' in social policy. This book, combining Titmuss's essays with contemporary commentaries by eminent academics, is an excellent example of how best to do this." Martin Powell, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of BathTable of ContentsIntroduction Ann Oakley and Jonathan Barker; Prologue: The experience of being a patient; PART One: Social medicine and social inequality Commentaries by Mike Wadsworth and Jerry Morris; Infant mortality; The social disease of juvenile rheumatism; Health and social change: the example of rheumatic heart disease; War and disease; PART Two: On the National Health Service Commentary by John Ashton; Towards a national hospital service; The policy background; The structure of the NHS in England; The NHS and general practice; The ethics and economics of medical care; PART Three: The sociology of health care Commentary by ????; Medical behaviour, science and the NHS; The hospital and its patients; 'Therapeutic' drugs; Planning for ageing and the health and welfare services; PART Four: Health, values and social policy Commentary by Julian Le Grand; Choice and the welfare state; The gift of blood; Doctors and 'socialised medicine'; Medical ethics and social change in developing societies; Health and the welfare state. Postscript: Richard Titmuss's contribution to the sociology of health and illness Raymond Illsley.
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Bristol University Press Health inequalities and welfare resources:
Book SynopsisForeword by Lisa Berkman, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University How welfare states influence population health and health inequalities has long been debated but less well tested by empirical research. This book presents new empirical evidence of the effects of Swedish welfare state structures and policies on the lives of Swedish citizens. The discussion, analysis and innovative theoretical approaches developed in the book have implications for health research and policy beyond Scandinavian borders. Drawing on a rich source of longitudinal data, the Swedish Level of Living Surveys (LNU), and other data, the authors shed light on a number of pertinent issues in health inequality research while at the same time showing how health inequalities have evolved in Sweden over several decades. Topics covered include how structural conditions relating to family, socio-economic conditions and the welfare state are important in producing health inequalities; how health inequalities change over the lifecourse and the impact of environment on health inequalities - at home, at school, in the workplace. Health inequalities and welfare resources will be invaluable to researchers, students and practitioners in sociology, social epidemiology, public health and social policy interested in the interplay between society and health.Trade Review"These complex findings and issues are clearly presented and discussed, and we learn much about the social determinants of health and levels of health inequalities in Sweden. ... there are rich pickings, plenty of food for thought and a lot to digest in this book; as a comprehensive and very capable investigation of the social determinants of health in Sweden it makes an important contribution to health inequalities research." International Journal of EpidemiologyTable of ContentsHealth, inequalities, welfare and resources ~ Johan Fritzell and Olle Lundberg; Health and inequalities in Sweden: long and short-term perspectives ~ Johan Fritzell, Carin Lennartsson and Olle Lundberg; Changing gender differences in musculoskeletal pain and psychological distress ~ Örjan Hemström, Gunilla Krantz and Eva Roos; Life course inequalities: generations and social class ~ Johan Fritzell; Work stress and health: is the association moderated by sense of coherence? ~ Susanna Toivanen; Psychosocial work environment and stress-related health complaints: an analysis of children's and adolescents' situation in school ~ Bitte Modin and Viveca Östberg; Assessing the contribution of relative deprivation to income differences in health ~ Monica Åberg Yngwe and Olle Lundberg; Social capital and health in the Swedish welfare state ~ Mikael Rostila; 'What's marital status got to do with it?': gender inequalities in economic resources, health and functional abilities among older adults ~ Carin Lennartsson and Olle Lundberg; Health inequalities and welfare resources: findings and forecasts ~ Johan Fritzell, Carin Lennartsson and Olle Lundberg.
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Policy Press The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic
Book SynopsisThis Handbook is the definitive resource for anyone wishing to quickly look up and understand key concepts and measurements relating to socioeconomic position and inequalities. A range of key concepts is defined and measures of socioeconomic position and inequality described. Alphabetical listings, cross-referencing, graphs and worked examples, references to web and other sources of further information, all contribute to making the Handbook both engaging and accessible for a wide audience. For students, academics and others involved in social science research it answers questions such as: · 'What's the official government measure of poverty?' · 'What factors make up the Townsend Index of Deprivation?' · 'What is a gini coefficient?' · 'I have to write a report on tackling inequalities in my area - what are the key issues I should consider before I begin?' For practitioners, policy makers, journalists and others who must read, understand and use research in fields as diverse as health, criminology, education, the environment, transport and housing it provides a one-stop, authoritative guide to making sense of and evaluating the significance of often complex methodologies. The authors are all eminent researchers in the field of health inequalities. They have together produced two glossaries for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health and have published a large number of books and articles in learned academic journals.Trade Review"For those wanting an accurate but handy handbook for quickly understanding core issues and getting on with analyses or action, this new text will be of great use." J. Michael Oakes, International Journal of Epidemiology"It would be impossible to find a better overview in one volume...this handbook deserves a place in every pocket, briefcase and department wherever there is a need to complement passion and persuasion with method and measurement" David Pencheon, Director, Eastern Region Public Health ObservatoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part one: Key concepts: Deprivation; Ethnicity; Health equity audits/profiles; Inequality/equality; Inequity/equity; Lay epidemiology; Life course socioeconomic position; Living standards; Official/vital statistics; Poverty; Psychosocial factors; Segregation; Social capital; Social class; Social exclusion; Social mobility; Social status; Social stratification; Status inconsistency; Wealth; Part two: Measures of socioeconomic position: Amenities; Benefit claimants; Breadline Britain and the Millennium Survey of Poverty and Social Exclusion; Cambridge Scale; Car access and ownership; Carstairs deprivation index; Child poverty: the official government measure; Deprivation indices; Education; Erikson and Goldthorpe class schema; Fuel poverty; Housing conditions; Housing status (including homelessness); Housing tenure; Housing wealth; Income; Index of local conditions; Index of local deprivation (1998); Indices of deprivation (2000); Indices of deprivation (2004); Jarman UPA index; Job (in)security; National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification (NS-SEC); Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure; Occupation-based measures; Occupational Social Class - RGSC; Overcrowding; Poverty: the official government measure; Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004; Townsend Index of deprivation; Unemployment; Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation; Part three: Measures of inequality: Absolute differences; Dissimilarity Index; Gini coefficient; Households below average income; Index of disparity; Measures of average disproportionality; Range; Relative concentration index; Relative index of inequality; Slope index of inequality; Standardised outcomes; Theil Index and Mean Log Deviation; Part four: Theoretical and methodological issues: Age-period cohort effects; Atomistic fallacy; Bar charts; Box and Whisker graphs; Cartogram; Choropleth map; Correlation coefficients; Ecological fallacy; Funnel plots; GIS; Incidence; Line graphs; Percentages; Populations; Prevalence; Proportional Mortality Ratio; Proportions; Scatterplots.
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Policy Press The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality
Book SynopsisThis impressive full-colour atlas, with over 100 colour-coded and accessible maps, uniquely presents the geography of death in Britain. The first atlas published on this subject for over two decades, this book presents data from more than 14 million deaths over a 24-year period in Britain. The maps detail over 100 separate categories of cause of death, including various cancers, suicides, assault by firearms, multiple sclerosis, pneumonia, hypothermia, falls, and Parkinson's disease, and show how often these occurred in different neighbourhoods. Accompanying each map is a detailed description and brief geographical analysis - the number of people who have died due to each cause, the average age of death and ratio of male to female deaths are listed. Taken as a whole, these provide a comprehensive overview of the geographical pattern of mortality in Britain. This atlas will be essential reading for academics and students of social medicine, sociology of health and illness and epidemiology. It will also be valuable for anyone who wants a better understanding of patterns of mortality within Britain, including medical and healthcare practitioners, policy makers and researchers.Trade Review"Visually it is stunning. I expect that it will become an important reference point for years to come." Kate Woodthorpe, OU, in Ageing & Society, Vol 29, 2009."With the increasing emphasis on working together in partnership to reduce health inequalities, boost life expectancy and reduce mortality rates from the 'big killer' diseases, the potentially awkward subject of death and its causes is of growing interest to an ever wider audience. Whatever their background, readers will find The Grim Reaper's road map a gentle and fascinating introduction to the topic." LariaNews, Feb 2009"The use of cartograms has been pioneered in the UK by Professor Danny Dorling and much of the inspiration for this report comes from his book `The Grim Reaper’s Road Map: An atlas of mortality in Britain’. It adds a unique perspective, showing maps where the area is proportional to the resident population rather than the geographical area, in contrast to conventional maps where urban centres that are represented by small geographical areas contain substantial resident populations. " Chief Medical Officer Annual Report 2012"One small island; such diversity. The remarkable geographical differences in health in Britain are beautifully displayed in these stunning maps. It makes clear how potent are the effects on health of the environment in which people carry on their lives." Michael Marmot, Director International Institute for Society and Health, University College London"Given the significant magnitude of geographic disparities in mortality (such as the north-south divide and the persistently high mortality in particular regions), this volume will make an important contribution to the understanding of mortality patterns in Britain." Dr James Dunn, Departments of Geography & Public Health Sciences, University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction; All deaths; Homicide; Transport; Suicide; External; Infections; Cancer; Mental disorder; Cardiovascular; Respiratory; Individual causes of death
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Policy Press An introduction to genetic epidemiology
Book SynopsisGenetic epidemiology is a very rapidly developing field that has acquired a central role in modern biomedical science. Until now there has been no comprehensive introductory text for students and academics who do not have specialised training in statistics or genetics. This book begins with a primer in human molecular genetics and then examines standard methods in population genetics and genetic epidemiology required for an adequate grounding in the field. Among much else, the book contains discussion of the public health aspects of the new genetics, and of epidemiological methods for studying genes and environmental factors in complex diseases. Written by leading international experts and supplemented by a glossary and in-chapter guides to further reading, this essential textbook will be widely welcomed by teachers and students on many courses internationally.Trade Review"A very interesting and understandable, yet quite detailed, account of techniques used in a rapidly advancing field." 5* review on Amazon.co.uk"This is a sobering must-read for anyone who wishes to know how genetic epidemiology may change how we understand, treat or prevent human disease." Robert Elston, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine"This book should be incredibly useful to students and researchers at all levels in genetic epidemiology. For students it offers an eminently readable and accessible foundation, and for researchers, a superb source to fill in missing pieces in our knowledge." Ezra Susser, Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric InstituteTable of ContentsKey concepts in genetic epidemiology ~ Paul R Burton, Martin D Tobin and John L Hopper; Genetic linkage studies ~ M Dawn Teare and Jennifer H. Barrett; Genetic association studies ~ Heather J. Cordell and David G. Clayton; Mapping complex disease genes using linkage disequilibrium and genome-wide association scans ~ Lyle J Palmer, Nicholas J Timpson, David M Evans, George Davey Smith and Lon R Cardon; A question of standards: what makes a good genetic association study? ~ Andrew T Hattersley and Mark I McCarthy; Biobanks and biobank harmonisation ~ Paul R Burton, Isabel Fortier, Mylene Deschênes, Anna Hansell and Lyle J Palmer; Population health aspects of genetic epidemiology: genomic profiling, personalised medicine, and Mendelian randomisation ~ George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim, Sarah Lewis and Lyle J Palmer.
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Policy Press An introduction to genetic epidemiology
Book SynopsisGenetic epidemiology is a very rapidly developing field that has acquired a central role in modern biomedical science. Until now there has been no comprehensive introductory text for students and academics who do not have specialised training in statistics or genetics. This book begins with a primer in human molecular genetics and then examines standard methods in population genetics and genetic epidemiology required for an adequate grounding in the field. Among much else, the book contains discussion of the public health aspects of the new genetics, and of epidemiological methods for studying genes and environmental factors in complex diseases. Written by leading international experts and supplemented by a glossary and in-chapter guides to further reading, this essential textbook will be widely welcomed by teachers and students on many courses internationally.Trade Review"A very interesting and understandable, yet quite detailed, account of techniques used in a rapidly advancing field." 5* review on Amazon.co.uk"This is a sobering must-read for anyone who wishes to know how genetic epidemiology may change how we understand, treat or prevent human disease." Robert Elston, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine"This book should be incredibly useful to students and researchers at all levels in genetic epidemiology. For students it offers an eminently readable and accessible foundation, and for researchers, a superb source to fill in missing pieces in our knowledge." Ezra Susser, Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric InstituteTable of ContentsKey concepts in genetic epidemiology ~ Paul R Burton, Martin D Tobin and John L Hopper; Genetic linkage studies ~ M Dawn Teare and Jennifer H. Barrett; Genetic association studies ~ Heather J. Cordell and David G. Clayton; Mapping complex disease genes using linkage disequilibrium and genome-wide association scans ~ Lyle J Palmer, Nicholas J Timpson, David M Evans, George Davey Smith and Lon R Cardon; A question of standards: what makes a good genetic association study? ~ Andrew T Hattersley and Mark I McCarthy; Biobanks and biobank harmonisation ~ Paul R Burton, Isabel Fortier, Mylene Deschênes, Anna Hansell and Lyle J Palmer; Population health aspects of genetic epidemiology: genomic profiling, personalised medicine, and Mendelian randomisation ~ George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim, Sarah Lewis and Lyle J Palmer.
£71.24
Association for Asian Studies The Pandemic – Perspectives on Asia
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention
Book SynopsisThis authoritative work, now in its fourth edition, presents state of the art knowledge on all key aspects of cancer prevention. In addition to detailed summaries on preventive strategies for specific cancers, readers will find current knowledge on a range of relevant scientific topics including the benefits of cancer prevention, the importance of diet and physical activity, innate and adaptive immune responses to cancer, hereditary risks, cancer health disparities, and the preventive role of telemedicine. In this new edition of the book, the coverage has been expanded to include additional disease sites and to provide up-to-date information across the range of disciplines in the field of cancer prevention and control. Written as a collaborative work by internationally recognized leaders in the field, Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention is an essential reference guide and tool for oncologists, primary care physicians, the research community, and students with an interest in reducing the burden of cancer through the implementation of effective preventive strategies.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Cancer Prevention.- Assessing the Humanistic Benefits of Cancer Prevention.- Assessing the Economic Outcomes of Cancer Prevention.- The Role of Diet, Physical Activity, and Body Composition in Cancer Prevention.- Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to Cancer.- Hereditary Risk for cancer.- Cancer Health Disparities.- Human Categories and Health the power of the concept of ethnicity.- Complementary and alternative approaches to cancer prevention.- Telemedicine, Telehealth, and eHealth technologies in cancer prevention.- Global Cancer Prevention.- Topical skin protection against solar insult molecular mechanisms and opportunities.- Skin Cancer Prevention.- Colorectal Cancer Prevention.- Lung Cancer Prevention.- Breast Cancer Prevention.- Prostate Cancer Prevention.- Cervical Cancer Prevention.- Endometrial cancer Prevention.- Ovarian Cancer Prevention.- Cancer Survivorship.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Public Health Informatics and Information Systems
Book SynopsisThis 3rd edition of a classic textbook examines the context and background of public health informatics, explores the technology and science underlying the field, discusses challenges and emerging solutions, reviews many key public health information systems, and includes practical, case-based studies to guide the reader through the topic. The editors have expanded the text into new areas that have become important since publication of the previous two editions due to changing technologies and needs in the field, as well as updating and augmenting much of the core content. The book contains learning objectives, overviews, future directions, and review questions to assist readers to engage with this vast topic. The Editors and their team of well-known contributors have built upon the foundation established by the previous editions to provide the reader with a comprehensive and forward-looking review of public health informatics.The breadth of material in Public Health Informatics and Information Systems, 3rd edition makes it suitable for both undergraduate and graduate coursework in public health informatics, enabling instructors to select chapters that best fit their students’ needs.Table of ContentsPublic Health Informatics: an Introduction.- History of Public Health Information Systems and Informatics.- Public Health Informatics in the Larger Context of Biomedical and Health Informatics.- Governmental and Legislative Context for Informatics.- Role of Informatics in Bridging Public and Population Health.- Information Infrastructure to Support Public Health.- Data Sources and Data Tools: Preparing for the Open Data Ecosystem.- Public Health Information Standards.- Privacy and Confidentiality of Public Health Information.- Health Systems Security.- Electronic Health Records: Origination, Adoption, and Progression.- Public Health Analytics and Big Data.- Project Management and Public Health Informatics.- Informatics in Disease Prevention and Epidemiology.- Public Health Laboratories.- The US National Vital Statistics System.- Syndromic Surveillance – a Practical Application of Informatics.- New Means of Data Collection and Accessibility.- Interoperability and Health Information Exchange for Public Health.- Geographic Information Systems.- Public Health Decision Support Systems.- Local and Regional Public Health Informatics.- Public Health Informatics and the American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Improving Community Health Despite Challenges.- Advancing Informatics Policy and Practice: A State Perspective.- National Public Health Informatics, United States.- Perspectives on Global Public Health Informatics.- Improving immunization through informatics: Perspectives from the BID Initiative Partnership with Tanzania and Zambia.- Public Health Informatics: the Path Forward.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Principles and Practice of College Health
Book SynopsisThis unique and comprehensive title offers state-of-the-art guidance on all of the clinical principles and practices needed in providing optimal health and well-being services for college students. Designed for college health professionals and administrators, this highly practical title is comprised of 24 chapters organized in three sections: Common Clinical Problems in College Health, Organizational and Administrative Considerations for College Health, and Population and Public Health Management on a College Campus. Section I topics include travel health services, tuberculosis, eating disorders in college health, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among college students, along with several other chapters. Subsequent chapters in Section II then delve into topics such as supporting the health and well-being of a diverse student population, student veterans, health science students, student safety in the clinical setting, and campus management of infectious disease outbreaks, among other topics. The book concludes with organizational considerations such as unique issues in the practice of medicine in the institutional context, situating healthcare within the broader context of wellness on campus, organizational structures of student health, funding student health services, and delivery of innovative healthcare services in college health. Developed by a renowned, multidisciplinary authorship of leaders in college health theory and practice, and coinciding with the founding of the American College Health Association 100 years ago, Principles and Practice of College Health will be of great interest to college health and well-being professionals as well as college administrators.Table of ContentsSection I. Common Clinical Problems in College Health Chapter 1 Campus Travel Health Services Julie Richards and Gail Rosselot Chapter 2 Tuberculosis Kent W. Bullis Chapter 3 Eating Disorders in College Health Melanie Trost Chapter 4 Depression and Anxiety in College Students Ayesha K. Chaudhary Chapter 5 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and College Students Cara M. Lusby and Scott H. Kollins Chapter 6 Athletic Medicine Jessica Higgs Chapter 7 Concussion Peter Duquette and P. Hunter Spotts Chapter 8 Contraception for College Reproductive Health Camille Moreno Chapter 9 Sexual Health Mary Johnson Section II. Population and Public Health Management on a College Campus Chapter 10 Supporting the Health and Well-Being of a Diverse Student Population Raphael D. Coleman, Katie Wilkinson, Padma Entsuah, Jaclyn M. Hawkins, and Gina Orlando Chapter 11 Student Veterans Amina Moghul Chapter 12 Health Science Students Giang T. Nguyen Chapter 13 Student Safety in the Clinical Setting David McBride Chapter 14 Campus Management of Infectious Disease Outbreaks Melanie J. Bernitz, Michael P. McNeil, and Julie A. Casani Chapter 15 Immunization Compliance Management Heather Spencer Chapter 16 Nutrition Services Franca Alphin and Toni Apadula Chapter 17 Sleep on College and University Campuses Michael P. McNeil and Eric S. Davidson Chapter 18 Substance Use and Abuse: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Alicia K. Czachowski and M. Scott Tims Section III. Organization and Administrative Considerations for College Health Chapter 19 Unique Issues in the Practice of Medicine in the Institutional Context Sarah Van Orman and Alyson Covington Chapter 20 Situating Healthcare Within the Broader Context of Wellness on Campus Julie Edwards Chapter 21 Organizational Structures of Student Health Richard P. Keeling Chapter 22 Funding Student Health Services James R. Jacobs and Leigh S. Stacy Chapter 23 Delivery of Innovative Healthcare Services Brian Halstater Chapter 24 Disability Access in Higher Education: Documenting as University Health Service Providers Grace C. Clifford
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Using R for Biostatistics
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the open source R software language that can be implemented in biostatistics for data organization, statistical analysis, and graphical presentation. In the years since the authors’ 2014 work Introduction to Data Analysis and Graphical Presentation in Biostatistics with R, the R user community has grown exponentially and the R language has increased in maturity and functionality. This updated volume expands upon skill-sets useful for students and practitioners in the biological sciences by describing how to work with data in an efficient manner, how to engage in meaningful statistical analyses from multiple perspectives, and how to generate high-quality graphics for professional publication of their research. A common theme for research in the diverse biological sciences is that decision-making depends on the empirical use of data. Beginning with a focus on data from a parametric perspective, the authors address topics such as Student t-Tests for independent samples and matched pairs; oneway and twoway analyses of variance; and correlation and linear regression. The authors also demonstrate the importance of a nonparametric perspective for quality assurance through chapters on the Mann-Whitney U Test, Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks test, Kruskal-Wallis H-Test for Oneway Analysis of Variance, and the Friedman Twoway Analysis of Variance. To address the element of data presentation, the book also provides an extensive review of the many graphical functions available with R. There are now perhaps more than 15,000 external packages available to the R community. The authors place special emphasis on graphics using the lattice package and the ggplot2 package, as well as less common, but equally useful, figures such as bean plots, strip charts, and violin plots. A robust package of supplementary material, as well as an introduction of the development of both R and the discipline of biostatistics, makes this ideal for novice learners as well as more experienced practitioners.Trade Review“The strengths include the ideal analysis containing both graphical and statistical output as well as a variety of datasets … . the authors provide a number of R packages for obtaining the same results, such as graphics or statistics output. … Each chapter is so complete that it can be read in any order; learned readers will probably jump back and forth between the chapters. This book can be used for self-learning or teaching purpose on the subject.” (Shu-Hui Wen, Biometrics, Vol. 78 (2), July, 2022)Table of Contents1 Introduction: Biostatistics and R.- 1.1 Purpose of this Text.- 1.2 Development of Biostatistics.- 1.3 Development of R.- 1.4 How R is Used in this Text.- 1.5 Import Data into R.- 1.6 Addendum1: Efficient Programming with R, Project Workflow, and Good Programming Practices (gpp).- 1.7 Addendum2: Preview of Descriptive Statistics and Graphics Using R.- 1.8 Addendum3: R and Beautiful Graphics.- 1.9 Addendum4: Research Designs Used in Biostatistics.- 1.10 Prepare to Exit, Save, and Later Retrieve this R Session.- 1.11 External Data and/or Data Resources Used in this Lesson.- 2 Data Exploration, Descriptive Statistics, and Measures of Central Tendency.- 2.1 Background.- 2.2 Import Data in Comma-Separated Values (.csv) File Format and/or Self Generate the Data Using R-Based Functions.- 2.3 Organize the Data and Display the Code Book.- 2.4 Conduct a Visual Data Check Using Graphics (e.g., Figures).- 2.5 Descriptive Statistics for Initial Analysis of the Data.- 2.6 Quality Assurance, Data Distribution, and Tests for Normality.- 2.7 Statistical Test(s).- 2.8 Summary.- 2.9 Addendum1: Specialized External Packages and Functions.- 2.10 Addendum2: Parametric v Nonparametric.- 2.11 Addendum3: Additional Practice Datasets for Data with Normal Distribution Patterns and Data That Do Not Exhibit Normal Distribution Patterns.- 2.12 Prepare to Exit, Save, and Later Retrieve this R Session.- 2.13 External Data and/or Data Resources Used in this Lesson.- 3 Student's t-Test for Independent Samples.- 3.1 Background.- 3.2 Import Data in Comma-Separated Values (.csv) File Format and/or Self Generate the Data Using R-Based Functions.- 3.3 Organize the Data and Display the Code Book.- 3.4 Conduct a Visual Data Check Using Graphics (e.g., Figures).- 3.5 Descriptive Statistics for Initial Analysis of the Data.- 3.6 Quality Assurance, Data Distribution, and Tests for Normality.- 3.7 Statistical Test(s).- 3.8 Summary of Outcomes.- 3.9 Addendum1: t-Statistic v z-Statistic.- 3.10 Addendum2: Parametric v Nonparametric.- 3.11 Addendum3: Additional Practice Datasets for Data with Normal Distribution Patterns and Data That Do Not Exhibit Normal Distribution Patterns.- 3.12 Prepare to Exit, Save, and Later Retrieve This R Session.- 3.13 External Data and/or Data Resources Used in this Lesson.- 4 Student's t-Test for Matched Pairs.- 4.1 Background.- 4.2 Import Data in Comma-Separated Values (.csv) File Format and/or Self Generate the Data Using R-Based Functions.- 4.3 Organize the Data and Display the Code Book.- 4.4 Conduct a Visual Data Check Using Graphics(e.g., Figures).- 4.5 Descriptive Statistics for Initial Analysis of the Data.- 4.6 Quality Assurance, Data Distribution, and Tests for Normality.- 4.7 Statistical Test(s).- 4.8 Summary of Outcomes.- 4.9 Addendum1: R-Based Tools for Unstacked (e.g. Wide) Data.- 4.10 Addendum2: Stacked Data and Student's t-Test for Matched Pairs.- 4.11 Addendum 3: The Impact of N on Student's t-Test.- 4.12 Addendum 4: Parametric v Nonparametric.- 4.13 Addendum5: Additional Practice Datasets for Data with Normal Distribution Patterns and Data That Do Not Exhibit Normal Distribution Patterns.- 4.14 Prepare to Exit, Save, and Later Retrieve This R Session.- 4.15 External Data and/or Data Resources Used in this Lesson.- 5 Oneway Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).- 5.1 Background.- 5.2 Import Data in Comma-Separated Values (.csv) File Format and/or Self Generate the Data Using R-Based Functions.- 5.3 Organize the Data and Display the Code Book.- 5.4 Conduct a Visual Data Check Using Graphics(e.g., Figures).- 5.5 Descriptive Statistics for Initial Analysis of the Data.- 5.6 Quality Assurance, Data Distribution, and Tests for Normality.- 5.7 Statistical Test(s).- 5.8 Summary of Outcomes.- 5.9 Addendum1: Other Packages for Display of Oneway ANOVA.- 5.10 Addendum2: Parametric v Nonparametric.- 5.11 Addendum3: Additional Practice Data Sets.- 5.12 Prepare to Exit, Save, and Later Retrieve This R Session.- 5.13 External Data and/or Data Resources Used in this Lesson.- 6 Twoway Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).- 6.1 Background.- 6.2 Import Data in Comma-Separated Values (.csv) File Format and/or Self Generate the Data Using R-Based Functions.- 6.3 Organize the Data and Display the Code Book.- 6.4 Conduct a Visual Data Check Using Graphics (e.g., Figures).- 6.5 Descriptive Statistics for Initial Analysis of the Data.- 6.6 Quality Assurance, Data Distribution, and Tests for Normality.- 6.7 Statistical Test(s).- 6.8 Summary of Outcomes.- 6.9 Addendum 1: Other Packages for Display of Twoway ANOVA.- 6.10 Addendum 2: Parametric v Nonparametric.- 6.11 Addendum 3: Additional Practice Data Sets.- 6.12 Prepare to Exit, Save, and Later Retrieve This R Session.- 6.13 External Data and/or Data Resources Used in this Lesson.- 7 Correlation, Association, Regression, Likelihood, and Prediction.- 7.1 Background.- 7.2 Import Data in Comma-Separated Values (.csv) File Format and/or Self Generate the Data Using R-Based Functions.- 7.3 Organize the Data and Display the Code Book.- 7.4 Quality Assurance, Data Distribution, and Tests for Normality.- 7.5 Statistical Test(s).- 7.6 Summary of Outcomes.- 7.7 Addendum 1: Multiple Regression.- 7.8 Addendum 2: Likelihood and Odds Ratio.- 7.9 Addendum 3:Parametric v Nonparametric.- 7.10 Addendum 4: Additional Practice Data Sets.- 7.11 Prepare to Exit, Save, and Later Retrieve This R Session.- 7.12 External Data and/or Data Resources Used in this Lesson.- 8 Working with Large and Complex Datasets.- 8.1 Background.- 8.2 Import Data in Comma-Separated Values (.csv) File Format and/or Self Generate the Data Using R-Based Functions.- 8.3 Organize the Data and Display the Code Book.- 8.4 Conduct a Visual Data Check Using Graphics (e.g., Figures).- 8.5 Descriptive Statistics for Initial Analysis of the Data.- 8.6 Quality Assurance, Data Distribution, and Tests for Normality.- 8.7 Statistical Test(s).- 8.8 Summary of Outcomes.- 8.9 Addendum1: Additional Graphics, to Show Relationships Between and Among Data.- 8.10 Addendum2: Graphics Using the lattice Package.- 8.11 Addendum3: Graphics Using the ggplot2 Package.- 8.12 Addendum 4: Beyond an Introduction to R - Use the tidyverse to Create Subsets of Original Datasets.- 8.13 Prepare to Exit, Save, and Later Retrieve This R Session.- 8.14 External Data and/or Data Resources Used in this Lesson.- 9 Future Actions and Next Steps.- 9.1 Use of This Text.- 9.2 R and Beautiful Reporting with R Markdown.- 9.3 Future Use of R for Biostatistics.- 9.4 Big Data and Bio Informatics.- 9.5 External Resources.- 9.6 Contact the Authors.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic
Book SynopsisThe book discusses the impact of genetics, social determinants of health, the environment, and lifestyle in the burden of cardiometabolic conditions in African American and Hispanic/Latinx populations. It includes fully updated and revised chapters on genetics and CVD risk, epidemiology of cardiovascular health, cardiovascular imaging, dyslipidemias and other emerging risk factors, obesity and metabolic syndrome, heart failure, and genetic variations in CVD. Unique aspects within African American and Hispanic/Latinx populations are explored with suggested appropriate therapeutic interventions. New chapters focus on ASCVD risk assessment, emerging precision medicine concepts, the impact of diabetes, resilience and CVD survival, and lifestyle and dieting considerations. Written by a team of experts, the book examines the degree to which biomedical and scientific literature can clarify the impact of genetic variation and environment on cardiovascular disease. The Second Edition of Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations is an essential resource for physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students in cardiology, internal medicine, family medicine, clinical lipidology, and epidemiology.Table of Contents1. Overview and Perspectives: Cardiovascular Disease in Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the era of COVID-19.- 2. Introduction to Precision Medicine: Minority Populations and Cardiovascular Health.- 3. Lipoprotein (a): A Cardiovascular Risk Factor affecting Ethnic Minorities.- 4. Emerging Precision Medicine Concepts and Cardiovascular Health in African Americans and Hispanics.- 5. The Implementation Frontier: Impact on Cardiovascular Health in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations.- 6. Genomic Approaches to Hypertension.- 7. Heart Failure in African Americans and Hispanic Americans; a persistent and disproportionate burden in under-represented minorities.- 8. Heterogeneity, Nativity, and Disaggregation of Cardiovascular Risk and Outcomes in Hispanic Americans.- 9. Cardiovascular Epidemiology in Hispanics/Latinos: Lessons Learned from HCHS/SOL.- 10. Lessons Learned from the Jackson Heart Study.- 11. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the Hispanic/Latino Population.- 12. Progress in ASCVD Risk Assessment in African Americans and Hispanic Americans.- 13. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN MINORITIES - Unique Considerations: Hypertension in African and Hispanic Americans.- 14. Weight Loss, Lifestyle, and Dietary Factors in Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans and Hispanics.- 15. Coronary Calcium Scoring In African American and Hispanic Patients.- 16. Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans.- 17. Cardiac Amyloid Heart Disease in Racial/Ethnic Minorities: Focus on Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy .- 18. Imaging for the Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women and Minority Populations.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Nurses and COVID-19: Ethical Considerations in
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being. Nurses are essential front-line clinicians across all health care settings and in every nation. The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARs-CoV-2 virus has affected children, adults, and communities within and across all societies. Nurses, too, have contracted the virus and died from the disease. They have also seen their colleagues, family members, and friends hospitalized or in intensive care units struggling to survive. Nursing’s professionalism and disciplinary resolve to care for patients and families amidst confusion, misinformation, and shifting guidelines has been called “heroic” by the public. How much risk should nurses be expected to accept during a pandemic? How do nurses help patients and families find comfort and dignity at the end-of-life? How do we help nurses who are suffering from moral distress and mental health concerns from what they have seen, been asked to do, or are unable to provide? And, how does society move forward from a pandemic that has challenged our basic ethical principles of justice and what is “fair, good and right” in caring for those who need care, including the most vulnerable and nurses themselves? This book addresses these and other ethical concerns that nurses are facing in their day-to-day clinical practice; experiences shared with patients, families, and colleagues. Although this book was written while the pandemic was still raging across the United States and globally, the events needed to be told as they were unfolding. This book helps us to learn from both the successes and failures that are affecting so many across the globe, including those on whom the public relies on to provide quality, compassionate, and expert care when they are sick: nurses. Table of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionChristine Grady and Connie UlrichChapter 2. Understanding Acceptable Risks in Healthcare? [Occupational risks/limits/PPE/obligations]a. This chapter will focus on how we define an “acceptable risk” in healthcare. We will discuss the many risks that nurses encounter in their day-to-day patient care activities during COVID-19 both within hospital systems and other types of care facilities, including working without protective equipment and the general risks to patients and families. (adding statistics on risks for CPR, risks to ICU providers and others; risks with use of PPEChristine Grady and Connie UlrichChapter 3. Finding Compassion: Helping Patients Die and Sometimes Alone a. This chapter will discuss the role of nurses and others (palliative care) in helping patients die, often alone, within intensive care environments or other settings. We will share some of the innovative ways in which nurses and others met their foundational moral obligations to patients at the end-of-life, honoring the dignity of patients, and helping families through this stressful time. Christine Grady and Connie UlrichChapter 4. Preparing to Make Difficult Choices: Triage Decision and Crisis Standards of Care a. This chapter will speak to the different models of triage decision-making and the ethics of priority setting and allocation of scarce resources.Christine MitchellChapter 5. The Emotional and Moral Remnants of COVID-19: Burnout, Moral Distress, and Mental Health Concerns a. The pandemic has focused our attention to the mental health concerns of front-line nurses, including their moral distress, burnout, depression, and emotional scars from a sense of exhaustion, tragic choices, and overwhelming circumstances. Christine Grady and Connie UlrichChapter 6. Unintended Consequences: Lack of Essential and Nonessential Patient Care, Furloughs of HCP, and Institutional Financial Lossesa. The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to unintended consequences of what is considered essential and nonessential patient care. Patients, for example, were delayed in seeking surgical services or other types of specialty care (e.g., cancer care). With the focus on COVID-19 patients, nurses have also been furloughed, affecting their economic livelihood. This chapter will highlight and discuss these concerns. Dr. Peter Buerhaus and colleaguesChapter 7. Lingering and Glaring Health Disparities amidst COVID-19 a. The COVID-19 related illnesses and deaths in minority and socially disadvantaged communities warrants our attention. This chapter will discuss these inequities and the social justice implications for quality and equitable care outcomes. Dr. Nneka SederstromChapter 8. School nurses/pediatric concernsAuthor TBCChapter 9. Global Health Ethics: Nursing Voices from China and Brazil a. This chapter will highlight the voices of nurses in two of the countries most significantly affected by COVID-19: China and Brazil. It is important to learn from both countries and to discuss the similarities and differences in caring for their populations and the role of nurses in these countries. Drs. Ulrich and Grady will provide pre and post comment to the essaysChapter 10. Moving Forward: What Have We Learned? Where do we go from here? [Conclusion] (Opportunities to move forward). Small “words of wisdom” from several nurse leaders (President of ICN, President of Sigma Theta Tau International, Liz Stokes-ANA and others). We ask several national and international nurse leaders to provide us with “words of wisdom” to help us move forward from the pandemic. Drs. Ulrich and Grady will provide commentary on these segments and conclude with their own “words of wisdom” to For each of the chapters, we will ask the authors to include a section on how the lessons learned from COVID-19 might have emerged from prior pandemics and might apply to future pandemics
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Quantitative Epidemiology
Book SynopsisThis book is designed to train graduate students across disciplines within the fields of public health and medicine, with the goal of guiding them in the transition to independent researchers. It focuses on theories, principles, techniques, and methods essential for data processing and quantitative analysis to address medical, health, and behavioral challenges. Students will learn to access to existing data and process their own data, quantify the distribution of a medical or health problem to inform decision making; to identify influential factors of a disease/behavioral problem; and to support health promotion and disease prevention. Concepts, principles, methods and skills are demonstrated with SAS programs, figures and tables generated from real, publicly available data. In addition to various methods for introductory analysis, the following are featured, including 4-dimensional measurement of distribution and geographic mapping, multiple linear and logistic regression, Poisson regression, Cox regression, missing data imputing, and statistical power analysis. Table of Contents1. Introduction to Quantitative Epidemiology.- 2. Characters, Variables, Data, and Information.- 3. Quantitative Descriptive Epidemiology.- 4. Causal Exploration with Bivariate Analysis.- 5. Confirmation with Multiple Linear Regression.- 6. Multivariate Analyses of Categorical and Counting Data.- 7. Multivariate Analysis of Time to Event Data.- 8. Simultaneous Analysis of Two Correlated Predictors.- 9. Special Issues with Quantitative Epidemiology.- 10. Power Analysis.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Quantitative Epidemiology
Book SynopsisThis book is designed to train graduate students across disciplines within the fields of public health and medicine, with the goal of guiding them in the transition to independent researchers. It focuses on theories, principles, techniques, and methods essential for data processing and quantitative analysis to address medical, health, and behavioral challenges. Students will learn to access to existing data and process their own data, quantify the distribution of a medical or health problem to inform decision making; to identify influential factors of a disease/behavioral problem; and to support health promotion and disease prevention. Concepts, principles, methods and skills are demonstrated with SAS programs, figures and tables generated from real, publicly available data. In addition to various methods for introductory analysis, the following are featured, including 4-dimensional measurement of distribution and geographic mapping, multiple linear and logistic regression, Poisson regression, Cox regression, missing data imputing, and statistical power analysis. Table of Contents1. Introduction to Quantitative Epidemiology.- 2. Characters, Variables, Data, and Information.- 3. Quantitative Descriptive Epidemiology.- 4. Causal Exploration with Bivariate Analysis.- 5. Confirmation with Multiple Linear Regression.- 6. Multivariate Analyses of Categorical and Counting Data.- 7. Multivariate Analysis of Time to Event Data.- 8. Simultaneous Analysis of Two Correlated Predictors.- 9. Special Issues with Quantitative Epidemiology.- 10. Power Analysis.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Recurrence of COVID-19 in New York State and
Book SynopsisAs a follow-up to COVID-19 in New York City: an Ecology of Race and Class Oppression, which showed that decades of discriminatory public policies shaped the Bronx into the epicenter of the first wave of COVID-19, this book examines the build up to the crest and subsequent ebbing of the second wave of COVID-19 across the 62 counties of New York State (NYS) and 152 ZIP Code areas of the four central boroughs of New York City (NYC). Like its predecessor, the sequel examines the vulnerabilities that give rise to spikes in infection rates that form epicenters. Unlike the first wave, NYC was not the epicenter of the second wave; high-incident counties just outside NYS formed an extended initial epicenter and exported COVID-19 to neighboring counties of NYS. Rural NYS counties differed significantly from urban ones socioeconomically and in infection rates during the cresting period. Before the crest, no socioeconomic factor was associated with county infection rates; rather, the major associating factor was political and cultural: percent of the 2020 vote garnered by Trump. Rural counties voted heavily for Trump. This association disappeared post-crest by mid-January 2021. In NYC, the Bronx again behaved like a single high-incidence entity, unlike the other three boroughs that had patches of high and low infection incidence. Among the topics covered: The Second COVID Wave Washes Over New York State The Second Wave Storm-Surges Across New York City Discussion of County Data from the Second Wave of COVID-19 Parsing Meaning From the 152 ZIP Code Data The book closes with a prescription for pandemic response planning based on empowered communities and workers interacting with health departments as equals. The Recurrence of COVID-19 in New York State and New York City is a valuable resource for social epidemiologists, public health researchers of health disparities, those in public service tasked with addressing these problems, and infectious disease scientists who focus on spread in human populations of new zoonotic diseases. The brief also will find readership among students in these fields, civil rights scholars, science writers, medical anthropologists and sociologists, medical and public health historians, public health economists, and public policy scientists.Table of Contents1 The Sixty-Two Counties of New York State 2 The Second COVID Wave Washes Over New York State3 Socioeconomic/Demographic Context of Big Apple’s Four Main Boroughs4 The Second Wave Storm-Surges Across New York City5 Discussion of County Data from the Second Wave of COVID-196 Parsing Meaning From the 152 ZIP Code Data 7 What Is to Be Done?
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Springer International Publishing AG Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology:
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Epidemiology has exerted major influence on the way that both infectious and chronic diseases are conceptualized and controlled, and, more generally, on the way that people in modern societies think about health, behavior, longevity, and risk. This collection consists of a series of in-depth analyses of the roots, development, and impact of epidemiological research, illuminating the complex relationship between medical research and data on the one hand, and social and cultural factors on the other. The thematical and geographical scope of the book ranges from indigenous and participant perspectives to the visualization of pandemics, and from Circumpolar North to East Africa. The book identifies significant historical changes and the driving forces behind them, charting forms of science-society interaction that characterize modern epidemiology. Chapter 1 and chapter 4 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Past Continuous of Epidemiology.- Part I: Patterns.- Chapter 2: Patterning Tuberculosis: Interwar Tuberculosis Research as a Bridge between Infectious and Risk Factor Epidemiology.- Chapter 3: Nicolas Brault. The Case-Control Method on Trial: The “Bermuda Summit Peace Conference” (1978).- Chapter 4: The Coexistent Temporalities: Multilayered Ethics in Birth Cohort Studies.- Part II: Populations.- Chapter 5: The Oxford Nutrition Survey (1941–50): Its Rise and Fall under Hugh Sinclair.- Chapter 6: Spotlighted or Hidden in Plain Sight: Consequences of the Post-War Ban on Ethnic Registration in Sweden.- Chapter 7: Risk Factor Epidemiology Viewed from Below: Lay Reception of the North Karelia Project (Finland) in the 1970s and early 1980s.- Chapter 8: From Colonial Medicine to Global Health: Epidemiologies of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in in East and Central Africa.- Part III: Pathologies.- Chapter 9: Light Pollution: Auroral Displays, Environmental Carcinogens and Epidemiological Imaginings of Inuit Cancer.- Chapter 10: Scientized Politics: Finnish Basic Income Trial as a Quest for Experimental Truth.- Chapter 11: Virus-Imagery: A Short History of Pandemic Mis-Representation, HIV to COVID-19.
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Springer International Publishing AG Teaching Biostatistics in Medicine and Allied
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the theory and practice of teaching biostatistics to students in the life sciences, in particular medical and dental trainees and researchers, as well as its crucial importance to biomedical research and evidence-based health care. Specific tools and resources to biostatistics teaching (e.g., “R shiny”) are described, and how they can be used effectively to increase interaction with students and improve engagement with the subject. The book is structured into three parts: teaching and learning of statistics in medicine and allied health sciences; the move to online learning and online learning methods, especially in light of the impact of COVID-19; and computer tools and resources. It provides a unique insight into teaching biostatistics to medical and dental students from some of the most prominent biostatisticians who also have a very strong interest in biostatistics pedagogy. Biostatistics teaching is important for maintaining the quality of biomedical research and also in evidence-based medicine, both of which are key to the health and well-being of the world population. This book is particularly useful to readers who are new to the field of biostatistics teaching as well as to more experienced teachers as it presents the latest accounts of the teaching and learning of biostatistics, recent experiences of increased use of online teaching, and useful computer resources and tools for teaching biostatistics.Table of Contents1. A Survey of Biostatistics Teaching in Medicine and Dentistry in Higher Education in the UK2. Evidence-based practice teaching for undergraduate dental students3. Teaching Medical Statistics within the context of Evidence Based Medicine4. Teaching Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) in the Health Sciences: The Significance of Significance5. Teaching conceptual understanding of p-values and of confidence intervals, whilst steering away from common misinterpretations 6. Using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to represent the data generating mechanisms of disease and healthcare pathways: a guide for educators, students, practitioners and researchers7. Statistics without maths: using Random Sampling to teach Hypothesis Testing.8. COVID-19: Online not distant – MSc students’ feedback on an alternative approach to teaching ‘Research Methods and Introduction to Statistics’ at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.9. Common misconceptions of online statistics teaching 10. Authentic project-based assessment using the Islands: Instructor’s view. 11. An interactive application demonstrating frequentist and Bayesian inferential frame-works12. Teaching data analysis to life scientists using “R” statistical software: challenges, opportunities, and effective methods13. Statistics in a world without science14. Killing me softly with your stats teaching: How much stats is too much stats?15. Life as a medical statistician.
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Springer International Publishing AG Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the origins, determinants and magnitude of the global problem of sedentary behaviour, along with concise yet in-depth solutions for tackling it. As a consequence of major technological advances in modern society, many people find themselves in environments characterized by prolonged sedentary behaviour. Building on the contributions of leading experts in the field, the new edition of this book presents updated knowledge about sedentary behaviour, its medical and public health significance, its correlates and determinants, measurement techniques, and recommendations for addressing this behaviour at the individual, community, environmental, and policy level. The book encompasses current research linking the COVID-19 pandemic to increased levels of sedentary behavior, and it covers global and planetary health aspects of sedentary behavior, highlighting sustainable development goals such as health and well-being for all. Applying a cross-disciplinary methodology, the book avoids considering physical activity and sedentary behavior as a single continuum, which potentially hampers progress in confronting widespread levels of sedentariness. Rather, the book helps readers better understand how sedentary and physically active behavior co-occur and how the two behaviours have distinct contributing factors. Building on the contributions of distinguished international experts in the field, this thorough resource is a valuable asset and challenges professionals, researchers, students, and practitioners alike to adopt new strategies and expand their reach.Table of ContentsPart I. Fundamentals of Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology1. Introduction to Sedentary Behaviour EpidemiologyCarmen Jochem, Daniela Schmid, and Michael F. Leitzmann2. The Descriptive Epidemiology of Sedentary BehaviourHannah Ahrensberg, Christina B. Petersen, Jane Nereah Wesonga Jacobsen, Mette Toftager,and Adrian E. Bauman3. Measurement of Sedentary Behaviour in Population StudiesBarbara Ainsworth, Fabien Riviere, and Alberto Florez-Pregonero4. Analysis and Interpretation of Sedentary Behaviour DataWeimo ZhuPart II. Health Effects of Sedentary Behaviour5. Physiological Responses to Sedentary BehaviourAna J. Pinto, Audrey Bergouignan, and Paddy C. Dempsey6. Genetics of SedentarinessYahua Zi, Hidde P. van der Ploeg, and Eco J.C. de Geus7. Sedentary Behaviour, Diabetes, and the Metabolic SyndromeJoseph Henson, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Paddy C. Dempsey, Melanie J. Davies, and ThomasYates8. Sedentary Behaviour and Cardiovascular DiseaseEmmanuel Stamatakis, Leandro F.M. Rezende, and Juan Pablo Rey-Lopez9. Sedentary Behaviour and CancerChristopher T.V. Swain, Terry Boyle, Shahid Mahmood, and Brigid M. Lynch10. Sedentary Behaviour and DepressionMark Hamer and Lee Smith11. Sedentary Behaviour and AdiposityCarmen Jochem, Daniela Schmid, and Michael F. Leitzmann12. Sedentary Behaviour and Psychosocial Health Across the Life CourseLee Smith and Mark Hamer13. Sedentary Behaviour and AgeingDawn A. Skelton, Juliet A. Harvey, Calum F. Leask, and Jennifer Scott14. Sedentary Behaviour and MortalityAshleigh R. Homer, and David W. DunstanPart III. Understanding Sedentary Behaviour and Promoting Reductions in Time SpentSedentary15. An Ecological Model for Understanding and Influencing Sedentary BehaviourNyssa T. Hadgraft, David W. Dunstan, and Neville Owen16. Sedentary Behaviour at the Individual Level: Correlates, Theories, and InterventionsStuart J.H. Biddle17. Specific Interventions Targeting Sedentary Behaviour in Children and AdolescentsJo Salmon, Harriet Koorts, Lauren Arundell, and Anna Timperio18. Workplace Programs Aimed at Limiting Occupational SittingGenevieve N. Healy, Samantha K Stephens, and Ana D. Goode19. Approaches to Decrease Sedentary Behaviour Among the ElderlyAnn M. Swartz and Whitney A. Welch20. Interventions Directed at Reducing Sedentary Behaviour in Persons with Pre-existingDisease or DisabilityStephanie A. Prince21. Specific Approaches to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour in Persons with Overweight/ObesityKatherine E. DeVivo, Dori E. Rosenberg, Sara H. Marchese, and Christine A. Pellegrini22. Programmes Targeting Sedentary Behaviour Among Ethnic Minorities and ImmigrantsMelicia C. Whitt-Glover, Amanda A. Price, and Breana Odum23. Sedentary Behaviour at the Community Level: Correlates, Theories, and InterventionKrista S. Leonard, Sarah L. Mullane, Mark A. Pereira, and Matthew P. Buman24. Sedentary Behaviour and the Social and Physical EnvironmentTrish Gorely, Simone A Tomaz, and Gemma C. Ryde25. Targeting Sedentary Behaviour at the Policy LevelAnthony D. Okely, Megan Hammersley, and Salome Aubert26. Dynamics of Sedentary Behaviours and Systems-Based Approach: Future Challenges andOpportunities in the Life Course Epidemiology of Sedentary BehavioursSebastien F.M. Chastin, Sofie Compernolle, Marieke De Craemer, Jean-Michel Oppert, andGreet Cardon27. From a Public to a Global and Planetary Health Perspective on Sedentary BehaviourEpidemiologyCarmen Jochem, Michael Leitzmann28. Ergonomic Support for Physiologically Correct SittingJoachim Grifka29. Limitations in Sedentary Behaviour Research and Future Research NeedsDaniela Schmid, Carmen Jochem, and Michael F. Leitzmann
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