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140 results in Epidemiology, Public Health and Medical Statistics

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Multivariable Analysis
  • A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Public Health Researchers
  • 4th edition
  • Mitchell H. Katz
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2025
  • Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling, highly praised text has been fully revised and updated with expanded sections on propensity analysis, sensitivity analysis, and emulation trials. As before, it focuses on easy-to follow explanations of complicated multivariable techniques including logistic regression, proportional hazards analysis, and Poisson regression. The perfect introduction for medical researchers, epidemiologists, public health practitioners, and health service researchers, this book describes how to preform and interpret multivariable analysis, using plain language rather than mathematical formulae. It takes advantage of the availability of user-friendly software that allow novices to conduct complex analysis without programming experience; ensuring that these analyses are set up and interpreted correctly. Numerous tables, graphs, and tips help to demystify the process of performing multivariable analysis. The text is illustrated with many up-to-date examples from the published literature that enable readers to model their analyses after well conducted research, increasing chances of top-tier publication.

Risk Communication in Public Health Emergencies
  • Practical Guidance Rooted in Theory
  • Kathleen G. V. Melville
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    June 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2025
  • This book clearly explains how public health officials plan, deliver, and evaluate crisis and emergency risk communication before, during, and after health emergencies. Organized into four parts - precrisis planning, communicating during a health emergency, communicating and evaluating after a health emergency, and crisis leadership - it offers practical information as well as the opportunity to reflect on emergency risk communication best practices and theories. Including information on precrisis planning, implications of public health law, developing communication plans, writing messages, evaluating emergency risk communication, and crisis leadership, this book brings together theory and practical application to provide working professionals with evidence-based research and practical knowledge to effectively communicate during health emergencies. Case studies of emergencies such as COVID-19, Zika, Ebola, Mpox, and water crises all use the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication framework to analyze how health officials provided accurate and actionable health information to the public.

Essential Lifestyle Medicine
  • Edited by Richard Pinder, Christopher-James Harvey, Ellen Fallows
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    15 May 2025
  • This indispensable text presents an overview of the essential knowledge, understanding and skills in Lifestyle Medicine, including a thorough explanation of the '6 Pillars' concept. There is no shortage of clinicians interested in the subject, but knowing where to start has, until now, been a challenge. Based around the innovative 'Bridge' diagram of Lifestyle Medicine, the textbook provides a clinically oriented perspective for undergraduate and postgraduate learners interested in evidence-based, person-centred care. Packed with practical guidance on preventing, managing and treating lifestyle-related long-term conditions, sample scripts and assessments to trigger conversations and engagement with patients are included. With contributions from around the world, this guide is a fantastic resource to start developing the essential clinical skills necessary for the practice of Lifestyle Medicine.

Introduction to Epidemiology for the Health Sciences
  • Emma Miller, Stephen Begg, Patricia Lee
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2025
    Print publication:
    24 April 2025
  • Dispelling the myth that the discipline is intimidating, Introduction to Epidemiology for the Health Sciences is approachable from start to finish, providing foundational knowledge for students new to epidemiology. Its focus on critical thinking allows readers to become competent consumers of health literature, equipping them with skills that transfer to various health sciences and other professional workplaces. The text is structured to take the reader on a journey: each chapter opens with a scientific question before exploring the epidemiological tools available to address it. A conversation tool with representative students clarifies common points of confusion in the classroom, encouraging learners to ask questions to deepen their understanding. Example boxes feature contemporary local and global cases, often with step-by-step workings, while explanation boxes provide further clarification of complex topics. Authored by epidemiology and public health educators, this engaging textbook provides all readers with the skills they need to develop their own epidemiology toolkit.

The Care Dividend
  • Why and How Countries Should Invest in Long-Term Care
  • Edited by Jonathan Cylus, George Wharton, Ludovico Carrino, Stefania Ilinca, Manfred Huber, Sarah Louise Barber
  • Published online:
    21 March 2025
    Print publication:
    03 April 2025
  • Long-term care often falls by the wayside in national policy dialogues. As populations age around the world and the prevalence of chronic conditions increases, greater numbers of people will need care and support, putting added pressures on acute-care facilities, communities, and families, among others. This increase in demand for long-term care raises questions about the capacity of governments to provide access to needed care, how these services will be properly resourced and who should receive these benefits. The Care Dividend provides a roadmap for investing in long-term care systems. It argues for increased public investment in high-quality, universally accessible long-term care and explains why these systems benefit everyone: households, health systems, economies, and societies. Bringing together a team of academics and policy experts from around the world, this book explains why and how governments can, and should, take action.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Sick Trans Person
  • Negotiations, Healthcare, and the Tension of Demedicalization
  • Evelyn Callahan
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    08 January 2025
    Print publication:
    17 September 2024
  • By elevating trans voices and experiences, this book offers a new perspective on transness, medicalization and research methodologies to help trans people, practitioners and policy makers better understand the barriers faced by trans people when seeking healthcare.

Contemporary Islamic Perspectives in Public Health
  • Edited by Basil H. Aboul-Enein, G. Hussein Rassool, Nada Benajiba, Joshua Bernstein, MoezAlIslam E. Faris
  • Published online:
    02 January 2025
    Print publication:
    16 January 2025
  • Across the world, there are over two billion people practicing the religion of Islam. There is increasing evidence of the value and influence of cultural competency and transcultural health for medical professionals working with these communities. Here, the authors have developed and organized a nuanced approach to cultural competence, simultaneously promoting diversity and insight into the influence and value of Islamic beliefs and practices on positive health. Endorsing culturally competent information, behaviors, and interventions, topics covered include immunization, hygiene, fasting and dietary restrictions, and sexual and reproductive health. This is a definitive resource for public health practitioners operating within Muslim communities and countries as well as for academic courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in public health and health promotion, medicine, social work, and social policy and for continual professional development.

Essential Epidemiology
  • An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals
  • 5th edition
  • Penelope Webb, Chris Bain, Andrew Page
  • Published online:
    27 September 2024
    Print publication:
    12 November 2024
  • Epidemiology is fundamental to public health, providing the tools required to detect and quantify health problems and identify and evaluate solutions. Essential Epidemiology is a clear, engaging and methodological introduction to the subject. Now in its fifth edition, the text has been thoroughly updated. Its trademark clear and consistent pedagogical structure makes challenging topics accessible, while the local and international examples, including from the COVID-19 pandemic, encourage students to apply theory to real-world cases. Statistical analysis is explained simply, with more challenging concepts presented in optional advanced boxes. Each chapter includes information boxes, margin notes highlighting supplementary facts and question prompts to enhance learners' understanding. The end-of-chapter questions and accompanying guided solutions promote the consolidation of knowledge. Written by leading Australian academics and researchers, Essential Epidemiology remains a fundamental resource and reference text for students and public health practitioners alike.

The Handbook of DOHaD and Society
  • Past, Present, and Future Directions of Biosocial Collaboration
  • Edited by Michelle Pentecost, Jaya Keaney, Tessa Moll, Michael Penkler
  • Published online:
    20 June 2024
    Print publication:
    27 June 2024
  • Research in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease has had a fundamental impact on our understanding of how environmental experiences and contexts influence the development of health and disease over the entire lifecourse. Covering a wide range of geographic regions, this volume includes an overview of the field, key concepts, and cutting-edge examples of interdisciplinary collaboration. The first reference text covering the interdisciplinary work of DOHaD, a broad list of contents maps the history of DOHaD, showcases examples of biosocial collaboration in action, offers a conceptual toolkit for interdisciplinary research, and maps future directions for the field. The definitive volume on biosocial collaborations in DOHaD, this will be indispensable for scholars working at the intersections of public health, lifecourse epidemiology and the social science of DOHaD. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Mass Gathering Medicine
  • A Guide to the Medical Management of Large Events
  • Edited by William J. Brady, Mark R. Sochor, Paul E. Pepe, John C. Maino II, K. Sophia Dyer
  • Published online:
    11 April 2024
    Print publication:
    18 April 2024
  • Mass medical deployments to large events, such as music festivals or sporting events, are increasing in number, size, and complexity. This textbook provides guidance and direction for rational, effective, and practical medical management of mass gathering events for medical leaders. This is the first authoritative text on mass event medicine, filling a much-needed gap in a large and important area of the specialty. An international group of contributors introduce the specialty and cover topics such as general deployment, staffing, equipment, and resources, moving on to more complex issues such as the business aspect of mass gathering medicine and the legal implications. There are also practical chapters on specific types of events and adverse events such as terrorism, severe weather, and civil disobedience. An invaluable text for all healthcare professionals planning for and attending mass events, particularly EMS professionals, large event planners and administrators, and law enforcement and security personnel.

Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews
  • Rigorous, Useful Evidence to Inform Health Policy
  • Chris Bonell, G. J. Melendez-Torres, Emily Warren
  • Published online:
    08 February 2024
    Print publication:
    15 February 2024
  • This book describes an innovative approach to the evaluation of complex health interventions, assessing what interventions work, how and for whom. Rejecting the stalemate between trials and realist evaluation, it draws on the best of both. Randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews offer the least biased means of assessing intervention effects but tell us little scientifically about how interventions work. Policy-makers and practitioners are also not supported to decide which interventions are likely to achieve most benefits in their local contexts. Realists use other forms of evaluation and evidence synthesis exploring how intervention mechanisms interact with context to generate outcomes. But these approaches lack rigour in assessing causality. This book proposes how realist evaluation methods may be incorporated within randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews. This enables evaluations and evidence synthesis to benefit from the more nuanced questions posed within realist enquiry while maintaining rigour in assessing causality.

Managing Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Global Policies, Narratives and Practices
  • Andy Alaszewski
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    20 January 2024
    Print publication:
    09 May 2023
  • This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making and shows how its use and misuse has shaped policy makers' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a range of countries.

Health for All Policies
  • The Co-Benefits of Intersectoral Action
  • Edited by Scott L. Greer, Michelle Falkenbach, Josep Figueras, Matthias Wismar
  • Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024
  • Factors outside of healthcare services determine our health and this involves many different sectors. Health for All Policies changes the argument about inter-sectoral action, from one focusing on health and the health sector to one based on co-benefits – a 'Health for All Policies' approach. It uses the Sustainable Development Goals as the framework for identifying goals across sectors and summarizes evidence along two causal axes. One is the impact of improved health status on other SDGs, e.g. better educational and employment results. The other is the impact of health systems and policies on other sectors. The 'Health for All Policies' approach advocated in this book is thus a call to improve health to achieve goals beyond health and for the health sector itself to do better in understanding and directing its impact on the world beyond the healthcare it provides. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Accelerating Diagnostics in a Time of Crisis
  • The Response to COVID-19 and a Roadmap for Future Pandemics
  • Edited by Steven C. Schachter, Wade E. Bolton
  • Published online:
    06 January 2024
    Print publication:
    07 March 2024
  • Those who responded to the COVID-19 pandemic have now had the opportunity to reflect on lessons learned, and in this science and data-rich book, those reflections are presented as a behind-the-scenes chronology of events and discoveries that occurred in COVID-19's wake. Offering a rubric for a future pandemic response, each chapter is written by experts, with their unique perspectives, experience, and learnings woven into visual roadmaps throughout the book. These roadmaps serve as a scaffolding upon which future healthcare leaders can build when creating, implementing and executing operational strategies in the face of future infectious disease outbreaks. Written for both lay and scientific audiences and featuring case studies which give clinical insight into the unique bond between COVID patients, their loved ones and their healthcare providers, this important book allows readers to leverage the knowledge of experts to improve the outcomes of future pandemics.

Understanding Obesity
  • Stanley Ulijaszek
  • Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    25 January 2024
  • Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how media and social media engage people in everyday life in those debates. In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today, after decades of mostly failed policies and interventions.

Essential Public Health
  • Theory and Practice
  • 3rd edition
  • Edited by Kirsteen Watson, Jan Yates, Stephen Gillam
  • Published online:
    01 December 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023
  • How can society most effectively prevent disease and promote health and wellbeing? That is the challenge addressed by this textbook. This new edition equips readers with a toolkit of key public health skills and approaches to improve health and wellbeing for different populations. It considers how to tackle perennial public health challenges, effectively address the wider determinants of health, navigate health systems and engage in partnership working. Fully updated with contemporary examples, this new edition includes new content on sustainability and climate change, global health, leadership and management, mechanisms for measuring health and healthcare, addressing inequalities and promoting inclusivity. Essential reading for all those training and working in healthcare, social care and related disciplines, this book also shines a light on the work undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic by those working in public health. Online material includes supplementary information and interactive, self-assessment questions to test understanding and aid learning.

Economics of Healthcare
  • A Brief Introduction
  • Andrew Friedson
  • Published online:
    02 November 2023
    Print publication:
    23 November 2023
  • An approachable beginner's guide to health economics that brings the economist's way of viewing the world to bear on the fundamentals of the US healthcare system. The conversational writing style, with occasional doses of humour, allows students to see how applicable economic reasoning can be to unpacking some of the sector's thorniest issues, while accessible real-world examples teach the institutional details of healthcare and health insurance, as well as the economics that underpin the behaviour of key players in these markets. Many chapters are enhanced by 'Supplements' that offer how-to guides to tools commonly used by health economists, and economists more generally. They help form the basic 'economist's toolbox' for readers with no prior training in economics, and offer deeper dives into interesting related material. A test bank and lectures slides are available online for instructors, alongside additional resources and readings for students, taken from popular media and health care and policy journals.

British Muslims, Ethnicity and Health Inequalities
  • Edited by Sufyan Abid Dogra
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    18 October 2023
    Print publication:
    31 January 2023
  • This landmark volume presents the lived experience of British Muslims in regard to health inequalities, access to health services and involvement in health promotion initiatives. Exploring religion, ethnicity, racism, social class and deprivation, the book examines how British Muslims interact with the UK healthcare system and the subsequent marginalisation in accessing benefits from those systems. Authors expose the unequal distribution of health benefits among British Muslims and explore how this has come to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using reflexive, interpretive, critical and evidence-based data-driven scenarios from across the UK, this book identifies loopholes in the healthcare system affecting high-risk groups. In doing so, it analyses why and how British Muslims live with the worst health outcomes when compared with all deprived social groups and ethnicities in the country.

Data-Guided Healthcare Decision Making
  • Ramalingam Shanmugam
  • Published online:
    13 July 2023
    Print publication:
    22 June 2023
  • How does data evidence matter in decision-making in healthcare? How do you implement and maintain cost effective healthcare operations? Do decision trees help to sharpen decision making? This book will answer these questions, demystifying the many questions by clearly showing how to analyse data and how to interpret the results – vital skills for anyone who will go on to work in health administration in hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical or insurance industries. Written by an expert in health and medical informatics, this book introduces readers to the fundamentals of operational decision making by illustrating the ideas and tools to reach optimal healthcare, drawing on numerous healthcare data sets from multiple sources. Aimed at an audience of graduate students and lecturers in Healthcare Administration and Business Administration courses and heavily illustrated throughout, this book includes up-to-date concepts, new methodologies and interpretations using widely available software: Excel, Microsoft Mathematics, MathSolver and JASP.

COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World
  • Confronting Cascading Crises in the Age of Consequences
  • Laurence L. Delina
  • Published online:
    22 June 2023
    Print publication:
    06 July 2023
  • The Covid pandemic has amplified the hardships people are experiencing from human-induced climate change and its impact on weather extremes. Those in the Majority World are most effected by such global crises, and the pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of these populations while highlighting the differences between them and those fortunate to live in the Minority World. This book presents an overview of the impact of the climate emergency punctuated by a pandemic, discussing the expanding inequalities and deteriorating spaces for democratic public engagement. Pandemic responses demonstrate how future technological, engineering, political, social, and behavioural strategies could be constructed in response to other crises. Using a critical analysis of these responses, this book proposes sociotechnical alternatives and just approaches to adapt to cascading crises in the Majority World. It will be valuable for social science students and researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in inequality and vulnerability in developing countries.

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