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Health status indicators. Medical statistics and surveys

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  • Quantitative Methods in Population Healthby Mari Palta

    Wiley 2003; US$ 152.00

    Each 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... more...

  • Dicing with Deathby Stephen Senn

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 34.00

    Stephen 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...

  • Designing and Conducting Health Surveysby Lu Ann Aday; Llewellyn J. Cornelius

    Wiley 2006; US$ 72.00

    Designing 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... more...

  • Salud, crecimiento económico y reducción de la pobrezaby Pan American Health Organization

    Pan American Health Organization 2003; US$ 18.00

    Este 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... more...

  • Health in the Americasby Pan American Health Organization

    Pan American Health Organization 2002; US$ 60.00

    Volume I describes the health situation from a regional perspective and contains a series of chapters that identify and analyze the most important general, demographic, and mortality trends of the period; major determinants of health as seen from a variety of political, social, economic, and financial standpoints; principal trends and characteristics... more...

  • Medical Statistics from A to Zby B. S. Everitt

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 46.00

    From 'Abcissa' to 'Zygosity determination' - this accessible introduction to the terminology of medical statistics describes more than 1500 terms all clearly explained, illustrated and defined in non-technical language, without any mathematical formulae! A painless guide to the bewildering world of medical statistics for doctors and students alike. more...

  • World Health Statistics 2005by Dept. of Measurement and Health Information Systems.

    World Health Organization 2005; US$ 36.00

    Focuses on a basic set of health indicators that were selected on the basis of current availability and quality of data and include the majority of health indicators that have been selected for monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the first part of World Health Statistics 2005, data are presented in four interrelated... more...

  • Summary Measures of Population Healthby C. Murray; A. Lopez

    World Health Organization 2002; US$ 45.00

    With increasing life expectancy, measuring population health levels on the basis of mortality rates alone has become less and less relevant in many populations. At the same time, societies invest substantial resources in promoting healthy life, in addition to preventing premature death. But how effective have these efforts been? What is the appropriate... more...

  • Medical Statistics from Scratchby David Bowers

    Wiley 2008; US$ 59.99

    This long awaited second edition of this bestseller continues to provide a comprehensive, user friendly, down-to-earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of data, from the calculation of simple proportions, to a variety of statistical tests, and the use of regression... more...

  • Health at a Glance 2007by OECD Publishing

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 35.00

    This 2007 edition of Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data and trends on different aspects of the performance of health systems in OECD countries. It provides striking evidence of large variations across countries in indicators of health status and health risks, as well as in the inputs and outputs of health systems. For the first... more...