Epidemiology category: 338 books
Pandemic
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?
Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they’ve never been seen before. Ninety...
The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide
Leadership and Management in Trying Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Firefighters are taught to battle flames. Police learn to respond quickly to 911 calls. So why are so few health officials prepared for public health crises? The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide is here to help. Whether it's an infectious disease outbreak, a scathing news report, or a sudden budget...
Rx for Survival
Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
A New York Times reporter?s eye-opening call to arms in the fight against epidemic diseases
We face a great choice. Philip Hilts, a prizewinning journalist for the New York Times and the Washington Post, argues in this report on global epidemic diseases that the world?s leading nations now...
The Cholera Years
The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly...
Silent Victories
The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Public health programs for disease and injury prevention were responsible for much of this advance. Over the century, America's public health system grew dramatically, employing science and political authority in response to an increasing...
by David Quammen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
“A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.” —Walter Isaacson
In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically,...
Keep Out of Reach of Children
Reyes Syndrome, Aspirin, and the Politics of Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This will be the first book-length history of Reye’s syndrome, and there is nothing else outside of the professional medical literature that chronicles even part of the story that made headlines and caused panic in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Keep Out of Reach of Children addresses many...
Deadliest Enemy
Our War Against Killer Germs
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan -- before it's too late.
Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects but are limited to individuals and their...
Getting to Zero
A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
A gripping, first-hand account of the harrowing decisions and uplifting encounters experienced by the authors in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.
Co-author Oliver Johnson received an OBE following his work in Sierra Leone, with both authors being well connected in NGO and global health...
Dread
How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.
As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts...
The Great Plague
A People's History
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord’s fascinating reconstruction of life during plague...
Mixed Models
Theory and Applications with R
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Praise for the First Edition
“This book will serve to greatly complement the growing number of texts dealing with mixed models, and I highly recommend including it in one’s personal library.”
—Journal of the American Statistical Association
Mixed modeling is a crucial...
Vital statistics - E-Book
An introduction to health science statistics
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Vital Statistics: an introduction to health science statistics e-book is a new Australian publication. This textbook draws on real world, health-related and local examples, with a broad appeal to the Health Sciences student. It demonstrates how an understanding of statistics is useful in the real...
Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling
With Applications in the Medical and Behavioral Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
This book provides clear instructions to researchers on how to apply Structural Equation Models (SEMs) for analyzing the inter relationships between observed and latent variables.
Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Model**ing introduces basic and advanced SEMs for analyzing various...