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  • Clear-Cutting Disease Control

    Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection

    by Rodrick Wallace, Luis Fernando Chaves, Luke R. Bergmann, Constância Ayres, Lenny Hogerwerf, Richard Kock, Robert G. Wallace ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks.Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Neoliberal Ebola

    Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm

    Edited by Robert G. Wallace, Rodrick Wallace ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This volume compiles five papers modeling the effects of neoliberal economics on the emergence of Ebola and its aftermath. Neoliberalism is currently the world’s primary economic philosophy. It centers international relations around globalizing laissez-faire economics for multinational companies, promoting free trade, deregulating economic markets, and shifting state expenditures in favor of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Methods of Clinical Epidemiology

    Edited by Suhail A. R. Doi, Gail M. Williams ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    “Methods of Clinical Epidemiology” serves as a text on methods useful to clinical researchers. It provides a clear introduction to the common research methodology specific to clinical research for both students and researchers. This book sets out to fill the gap left by texts that concentrate on public health epidemiology and focuses on what is not covered well in such texts. The four sections ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911

    The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

    by Dr. William C. Summers, M.D. ...
    When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history, William Summers relates how this plague killed as many as 60,000 people in less than a year, and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Zika Virus: Cracking the Zika Virus Code: Zika Virus Biological Species - Mosquito-borne Illness

    by Stephen Nelson ...
    The Pan American Health Organization alerted American citizens and the world in May 2015 concerning the Zika virus. This was after the confirmation of an infection from the virus in Brazil that was discovered around that same time. During this period of the outbreak women in Brazil it was reported that a number of Brazilian women gave birth to infants with deformities.The Zika virus outbreak ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Applied Survival Analysis Using R

    by Dirk F. Moore ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Applied Survival Analysis Using R covers the main principles of survival analysis, gives examples of how it is applied, and teaches how to put those principles to use to analyze data using R as a vehicle. Survival data, where the primary outcome is time to a specific event, arise in many areas of biomedical research, including clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and studies of animals. Many ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

    With Applications in the Medical and Behavioral Sciences

    by Sik-Yum Lee, Xin-Yuan Song ...
    Series series Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
    This book provides clear instructions to researchers on how to apply Structural Equation Models (SEMs) for analyzing the inter relationships between observed and latent variables.Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Model**ing introduces basic and advanced SEMs for analyzing various kinds of complex data, such as ordered and unordered categorical data, multilevel data, mixture data, ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume II of II) : From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time

    by Charles Creighton ...
    A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume II of II) : From the Extinction of Plague to the Present TimeThis volume is the continuation of ‘A History of Epidemics in Britain from a.d. 664 to the Extinction of Plague’, and is the completion of the history to the present time. The two volumes may be referred to conveniently as the first and second of a ‘History of Epidemics in Britain.’ In adhering ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Applied Multivariate Statistics with R

    by Daniel Zelterman ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book brings the power of multivariate statistics to graduate-level practitioners, making these analytical methods accessible without lengthy mathematical derivations. Using the open source, shareware program R, Professor Zelterman demonstrates the process and outcomes for a wide array of multivariate statistical applications. Chapters cover graphical displays, linear algebra, univariate, ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Systems Science and Population Health

    Edited by Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Sandro Galea ...
    Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between. Our typical approach to studying population health, however, remains oriented around a reductionist approach to conceptualizing, empirically analyzing, and intervening to improve population health. The trouble is that interventions founded on simplifying a complex ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD

  • Numerical Ecology with R

    by Daniel Borcard, Francois Gillet, Pierre Legendre ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical overviews, the authors accompany the users through the exploration of the methods by means of applied and extensively commented examples. Users are invited to use this book as a teaching companion at the computer. The ... Read more

    $96.09 CAD

  • Microbial Control of Vector-Borne Diseases

    Edited by Brij Kishore Tyagi, Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran ...
    Vector-borne diseases have increasingly emerged as significant causes of human illnesses worldwide, largely due to environmental changes (deforestation), population movements (migration and travelling), international trades, and buildup of drug resistance. These are presenting major challenge to the efficacy and use of conventional tools for controlling vector-borne diseases. Therefore, use of ... Read more

    $474.10 CAD