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GIS And Healthby A. Gattrell; M. Loytonen
CRC Press 1998; US$ 88.95An examination of appropriate methodologies for spatial analysis and spatial statistics in analyzing health data. The book explores the links with GIS and the problems associated with such analyses, and the statistical and cartographic methods for more...
Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiNby Andrew B. Lawson; William J. Browne; Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2003; US$ 120.00Disease mapping involves the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data and has many applications, for example within resource allocation, cluster alarm analysis, and ecological studies. There is a real need amongst public health workers for simpler and more efficient tools for the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data. Bayesian and multilevel methods provide the required efficiency, and with the emergence of software packages – such as WinBUGS and MLwiN – are now easy to implement in practice. Provides an introduction to Bayesian and multilevel modelling in disease mapping. Adopts a practical approach, with many detailed worked examples. Includes introductory material on WinBUGS and MLwiN. Discusses three applications... more...
Spatial Analysis, GIS and Remote Sensingby Donald P. Albert; Wilbert M. Gesler; Barbara Levergood
CRC Press 2000; US$ 119.95This new book explores the rapidly expanding applications of spatial analysis, GIS and remote sensing in the health sciences, and medical geography. more...
Seasonal Patterns of Stress, Immune Function, and Diseaseby Randy J. Nelson; Gregory E. Demas; Sabra L. Klein; Lance J. Kriegsfeld; Frank Bronson
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 51.00This first book to examine seasonal immune function from an interdisciplinary perspective presents evidence that infection is cyclical with the seasons, and that this phenomenon is mirrored in cycles of immune function. Stress, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and human cancers are examined, and the role of hormones is considered. more...
Culture/place/healthby Robin A. Kearns; Wilbert M. Gesler
Routledge 2001; US$ 61.95This book is the first exploration of cultural- geographical health research for a decade, drawing on contemporary research undertaken by geographers and other social scientists to explore the links between culture, place and health. more...
Integration Of Public Health With Adaptation To Clby Kristie L. Ebi; Joel B Smith; Ian Burton
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 149.95By exploring cases in public health and prior lessons learned, this valuable title for those involved in health aspects of climate variation, identifies the key adjustments necessary for public health systems to effectively adapt to climatic change. more...
Global Mapping of Infectious Diseasesby S.I. Hay; Alastair Graham; David J. Rogers
Elsevier 2006; US$ 209.00This special volume of Advances in Parasitology gives a comprehensive overview of the practical procedures involved in all aspects of global mapping. Coverage includes new research and new data, along with descriptions of new techniques in global mapping. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, it should be a standard for years to come. With an impact factor of 3.9, the series ranks second in the ISI Parasitology subject category. * Includes DVD of global environmental and global population data, including scripts for predicting disease distributions and evaluating the accuracy of these mapped products. * Valuable source of both technical and epidemiological data in this rapidly growing field. * Discusses practical applications... more...
Under the Weatherby Pat Thomas
Vision Paperbacks 2006; US$ 16.99In our drive to achieve good health, we consult a variety of experts, but how many of us think of consulting the weatherman? This work introduces Biometeorology an expanding science that has shown our health to be inextricably linked to atmospheric conditions. more...
Inescapable Ecologiesby Linda Nash
University of California Press 2006; US$ 15.95Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of ?ecological? ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California?s Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness constituted not a clear triumph of modern biomedicine but... more...
Evaluation of Certain Mycotoxins in Food, No. 906by Fifty-sixth Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Committee on Food Additives
World Health Organization 2002; US$ 12.60Fifty-sixth Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Committee on Food Additives. This report presents the conclusions os a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee converned to assess the risks associated with the consumption of food contaminated with specific mycotoxins. The first part of the report contains a general discussion of the principles for evaluating mycotoxins in food, including those concerning analytical methods, sampling, data on food consumption and dietary intake, and prevention and control. The second part provides a summary of the Committee's evaluations of toxicological data on specific mycotoxins, including aflatoxin M1, fumonisins B1, B2 and B3, ochratoxin A, deoxynivaleno 1, and T-2 and HT-2 toxins. more...