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Medical Uses of Statisticsby John C. Bailar; David C. Hoaglin
John Wiley & Sons 2012; US$ 89.00A new edition of the classic guide to the use of statistics in medicine, featuring examples from articles in the New England Journal of Medicine Medical Uses of Statistics has served as one of the most influential works on the subject for physicians, physicians-in-training, and a myriad of healthcare experts who need a clear idea of the proper application of statistical techniques in clinical studies as well as the implications of their interpretation for clinical practice. This Third Edition maintains the focus on the critical ideas, rather than the mechanics, to give practitioners and students the resources they need to understand the statistical methods they encounter in modern medical literature. Bringing together contributions... more...
Determining Health Expectanciesby Jean-Marie Robine; Carol Jagger; Colin D. Mathers; Eileen M. Crimmins; Richard M. Suzman
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2003; US$ 245.00Health expectancies were developed to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health - replacing quality by quantity. Health expectancies extend the concept of life expectancy to morbidity and disability by providing a means of dividing life expectancy into life spent in various states of good and bad health. Being independent of the size of populations and of their age structure, health expectancies thus allow direct comparison of the different groups that constitute populations: sexes, socio-professional categories, regions. This book brings together for the first time, the major works of REVES* over the past ten years. As well as providing comparisons of the health of many of the world's... more...
Quantitative Methods in Population Healthby Mari Palta
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 139.00Each topic starts with an explanation of the theoretical background necessary to allow full understanding of the technique and to facilitate future learning of more advanced or new methods and software Explanations are designed to assume as little background in mathematics and statistical theory as possible, except that some knowledge of calculus is necessary for certain parts. SAS commands are provided for applying the methods. (PROC REG, PROC MIXED, and PROC GENMOD) All sections contain real life examples, mostly from epidemiologic research First chapter includes a SAS refresher more...
Dicing with Deathby Stephen Senn
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 33.00Stephen Senn explains here how statistics determines many decisions about medical care, from allocating resources for health, to determining which drugs to license, to cause-and-effect in relation to disease. He shows why reasoning with probability is essential to making rational decisions in medicine. more...
Quality of Lifeby Alison Carr; Irene Higginson; Peter Robinson
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008; US$ 59.95The way we think about health and health care is changing. Two factors driving this change are that we recognise the importance of the social consequences of disease and secondly, we acknowledge that health care aims to increase both the quantity and quality of survival. For these reasons, health care focusses more and more on 'quality of life'. Measuring quality of life brings many challenges. What do we mean by 'quality of life'? Who should measure it? How can we measure it? What can we use the information for? This book provides an accessible but up to date and authoritative overview of the measurement of quality of life in health care. It brings together the work of authors from Medicine, Palliative Care, Nursing, Ethics, Dentistry, Assistive... more...
Health at a Glanceby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 37.00The health of populations in OECD countries has improved dramatically over the past forty years, while health expenditure has been growing rapidly and now represents more than 8% of gross domestic product (GDP) in more than half of OECD countries. As a result, health systems have become the largest service industry in most OECD countries. more...
Basic Skills In Statisticsby Adrian Cook; Gopalakrishnan Netuveli; Aziz Sheikh
Class Publishing (London) Ltd 2003; US$ 26.99Statistics can be an intimidating subject for many students and clinicians. This concise text introduces basic concepts that underpin medical statistics and using everyday clinical examples, highlights the importance of statistical principles in understanding and implementing research findings in routine clinical care. more...
Probability, Statistics, and Modelling in Public Healthby M. S Nikulin
Springer 2006; US$ 144.00Consists of contributions that discuss various probabilistic and statistical models used in public health. Many of them are based on the work of Marvin Zelen of the Harvard School of Public Health. Topics discussed include models based on Markov and semi-Markov processes, multi-state models, models and methods in lifetime data analysis, and more. more...
Designing and Conducting Health Surveysby Lu Ann Aday; Llewellyn J. Cornelius
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011; US$ 70.00Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and implications provided by cognitive research on question and questionnaire design in particular. This important resource presents a total survey error framework that is a useful compass for charting the dangerous waters between systematic and random errors that inevitably accompany the survey design enterprise. In addition, three new studies based on national, international, and state and local surveys—the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster... more...
Salud, crecimiento económico y reducción de la pobrezaby Pan American Health Organization
Pan American Health Organization 2003; US$ 18.00Este informe, traducción del original en inglés publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud, es el resultado de la investigación y análisis de un grupo interdisciplinario, presidido por el Dr. George A.O. Alleyne y el Profesor Daniel Cohen. La razón de ser del Grupo de Trabajo fue presentar pruebas que van más allá del sector de la salud para sustentar la tesis de que el estado de la salud es un factor determinante que contribuye al desarrollo económico y reduce la pobreza. En este libro se evalúa el impacto de las inversiones en salud sobre la reducción de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria. more...