Epidemiology category: 338 books

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Cardiovascular Diseases

Genetic Susceptibility, Environmental Factors and their Interaction

by Nikolaos Papageorgiou
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016

Cardiovascular Diseases: Genetic Susceptibility, Environmental Factors and Their Interaction covers the special heritability characteristics and identifying genetic and environmental contributions to cardiovascular health. This important reference provides an overview of the genetic basis of cardiovascular...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014

Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals, Fourth Edition bridges the gap between established knowledgebase and new advances in metal toxicology to provide one essential reference for all those involved in the field. This book provides comprehensive coverage of basic toxicological data, emphasizing toxic...
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Life Span Perspectives of Suicide

Time-Lines in the Suicide Process

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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

In recent years, a great deal of interest has been focused on suicide in the elderly and in the young. However, in line with modem trends in psychology, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, and other human health fields, interest has now shifted to suicide across the life span, from childhood through...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

An attractive feature of self-regulation therapies is that, instead of doing something to the patients, they teach them to do something for them­ selves. Furthermore, the fact that the patient is able to do something to cope with his or her health problem can produce a significant reduction in the...
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Molecular Aspects of Alcohol and Nutrition

A Volume in the Molecular Nutrition Series

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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Molecular Aspects of Alcohol and Nutrition is a valuable resource for nutrition researchers and nutritionists who study or treat alcohol-related diseases. Experts from across the field of alcohol research explain how alcohol disrupts normal fat, carbohydrate, and protein metabolic processes occurring...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

A reprint of the 1989 edition of this book has been made necessary by continuing demand after rapid exhaustion of the first printing. In the two years since its appearance, there has been relatively little expansion of knowledge on this topic, and its massive accumulation of references still remains...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This book is a logical companion volume to Women at High Risk to Breast Cancer (Kluwer, 1989) edited by me previously. It distinguishes two aspects of current ap­ proaches to clinical breast cancer prevention. The first is the need to advise individ­ ual women on how they might reduce their personal...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013

This authoritative work 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. Written as a collaborative work by nationally recognized leaders in the field of cancer prevention and...
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Injury Research

Theories, Methods, and Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012

Injury is recognized as a major public health issue worldwide. In most countries, injury is the leading cause of death and disability for children and young adults age 1 to 39 years. Each year in the United States, injury claims about 170,000 lives and results in over 30 million emergency room visits...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Diet is a major factor in health and disease. Controlled, long-term studies in humans are impractical, and investigators have utilized long-term epidemiological investigations to study the contributions of diet to the human condition. Such studies, while valuable, have often been limited by contradictory...
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by Yang Kuang, John D. Nagy, Steffen E. Eikenberry
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016

Introduction to Mathematical Oncology presents biologically well-motivated and mathematically tractable models that facilitate both a deep understanding of cancer biology and better cancer treatment designs. It covers the medical and biological background of the diseases, modeling issues, and existing...
Cover of Building Healthy Individuals, Families, and Communities
by Ted N. Strader, Tim D. Noe, David A. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Youth have nearly always exhibited behaviors that frustrate adults. It can be diffi­ cult to understand why young people engage in risky or destructive behavior, and it is challenging to develop strategies to encourage more healthy and responsible behavior among our youth. However, it is helpful...
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The Diffusion of Medical Innovations

An Applied Network Analysis

by Mary L. Fennell, Richard B. Warnecke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013

This book has several objectives. Most basically it presents an approach to assessing interorganizational innovation diffusion. To do this we have tried to link contempo­ rary organizational theory with more person-centered diffusion theory. We have also combined contingency theory with the resource...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Seer, forecaster, prophet, geomancer, or tout - all predict future events as physicians must. The medical activity is prognosis from the Greek pro (forward) and gnosis (special knowledgeL thus foreknowledge, and the practitioner is the prognosticator, a sobriquet which falls unhappily upon the ear....
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