Epidemiology category: 338 books
Ebola
Clinical Patterns, Public Health Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Ebola: Clinical Patterns, Public Health Concerns is a concise description and discussion of the Ebola virus and disease. The intended audience is medical practitioners, including those working in endemic areas as well as health-facility planners and public health practitioners. The book fills an important...
AIDS Education
Interventions in Multi-Cultural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Sixteen years into the AIDS epidemic, our understandings of the virus, its transmis sion, modes of controlling blood banks and testing are relatively well established. In the last decade, we have also experienced an astonishing amount ofnew social science research ena bling us to better understand...
by Michael Glint
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
"Ebola: Outbreak Preparedness Guide": Prepare yourself and loved ones against this devastating decease, by reading this guide.
The first and most important of this is to maintain strict sanitary standards. This includes keeping your hands clean and using alcohol-based sanitizers...
Textbook of Research Ethics
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This textbook provides a brief history of human experimentation and reviews various theories of ethics from which the principles and rules that govern this research are derived. All relevant international documents and national regulations, policies and memoranda are referred to extensively to assist...
Traditional Family Values and Substance Abuse
The Hispanic Contribution to an Alternative Prevention and Treatment Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Based on findings from a sample of nearly 1,100 Puerto Ricans living in the New York area, this book posits that adhering to traditional cultural values (for example, the family) has the socially desirable consequence of discouraging such deviant behaviors as substance abuse. The authors conclude...
Ebola
An Evolving Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Selected as CHOICE magazine's Outstanding Academic Title, January 2017.
The book is a narrative of the unfolding of the Ebola virus disease outbreak from a scientific view point. The author provides an analysis of the scientific basis of public health policies that have influenced the public's,...
by Mimi Zeiger
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1999
Provides immediate help for anyone preparing a biomedical paper by givin specific advice on organizing the components of the paper, effective writing techniques, writing an effective results sections, documentation issues, sentence structure and much more. The new edition includes new examples from...
Essential Public Health
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
How can society most effectively prevent disease and promote health? That is the challenge addressed by this textbook. Public health is the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised efforts of society. The 'science' is concerned with making a...
Medical Illuminations
Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree? The answers to these questions are not as black and white...
Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in the USA
Final Report of the National CAPD Registry 1981–1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Final Report of the USA CAPO Registry summarizes eight years of observation and analysis that reflects the experiences of 485 clinical centers and over 25,000 CAPO patients. As such, it offers a wealth of information, available here for the first time to interested parties around the world. Because...
Lest We Forget
A Doctor's Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In 2014 after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history....
Malaria Treatment
With This Influential Guide On The Making Of a Tropical Disease Discover The Answers You've Always Wanted To Know About malaria methods and protocols, Malaria Dreams, malaria history, malaria immunology and More
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Are you interested in learning about Malaria? Then look no further. This best-selling guide on Malaria Treatment provides a wealth of information and useful advice on Malaria and Mosquitoes, Malaria dreams, malaria history, malaria immunology, malaria drugs and more.
Health Measurement Scales
A practical guide to their development and use
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educational achievement and aptitude, and learning style in their patients. This fifth edition of Health Measurement Scales enables these groups to both develop...
by Sergey Govorushko
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book presents a 360-degree picture of the world of insects and explores how their existence affects our lives: the "good, bad, and ugly" aspects of their interactions with humankind. It provides a lucid introductory text for beginning undergraduate students in the life sciences, particularly those pursuing beginner courses in entomology, agriculture, and botany.