Published March, 2013
By Sana Loue
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This textbook provides a brief history of human experimentation and reviews various theories of ethics from which the principles and rules that govern this research are derived.

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Published March, 2013
By Andrew B. Lawson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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Published March, 2013
By Ann O'Leary, PhD
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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It describes a set of prevention strategies that do not solely rely on male condoms, including: the use of HIV antibody testing and `negotiated safety', abstinence, control of sexually transmitted diseases, treatment advances as prevention, and psychopharmacology to assist with behavior change.

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Published March, 2013
By Ralph J. DiClemente, Laura Gibney and Sten H. Vermund
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Aids Prevention and Mental Health
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Globally, action to prevent HIV spread is inadequate. In some countries matters are still worse-there is still hardly any action at all against AIDS and scarcely any effort to make HIV visible.

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Published March, 2013
By Robert F. Phalen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Small invisible particles in the urban air, especially those produced by human activities, have recently stimulated intense scrutiny, debate, regulation, and legal proceedings. The PM controversy is the sum of the frequently heated debates related to the potential health risks from urban PM.

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Published March, 2013
By Peter Diggle, Patrick Heagerty, Kung-Yee Liang and Scott Zeger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Statistical Science Series
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This second edition has been completely revised and expanded to become the most up-to-date and thorough professional reference text in this fast-moving area of biostatistics. It contains an additional two chapters on fully parametric models for discrete repeated measures data and statistical models for time-dependent predictors.

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Published March, 2013
By John M. Last, Franklin White and Lorann Stallones
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Blending established wisdom with new perspectives, Global Public Health will stimulate better understanding of how the different streams of public health can work more synergistically to promote global health equity. It is a foundation on which future public health measures can be built and succeed.

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Published March, 2013
By Christopher J. Bulpitt and Christopher Bulpitt
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Bradford Hill has defined a clinical trial as "A carefully and ethically designed experiment with the aim of answering some precisely framed question" [1].

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Published February, 2013
By Ronald D. Fricker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Presents basic and advanced methods with a focus on demonstrated added value for a broad class of public health surveillance problems.

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Published February, 2013
By James A. Russell and Panteleimon Ekkekakis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Affect, mood and emotion are focal points of the booming research field investigating the mechanisms behind health behaviours such as diet, smoking and physical activity. Panteleimon Ekkekakis proposes a sound system for selecting measures for these constructs in an accessible guidebook of particular interest to academic researchers and postgraduate students.

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