Published December, 2006
By Nancy Devlin, Agota Szende and Mark Oppe
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: EuroQol Group Monographs
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This book provides an essential guide to the use of the EuroQol Group's value sets for working with EQ-5D data. The EQ-5D is a widely used generic health state descriptive system and facilitates the valuation of health and health gain through its pre-existing value sets.

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Published December, 2006
By Hlne Sancho-Garnier, Ha(c)La]ne Sancho-Garnier, Helene Sancho-Garnier and H L Ne Sancho-Garnier
Publisher: Springer (Springer Editions)
Series: Dépistage et cancer
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Published November, 2006
By Stuart O. Schweitzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Uses the tools of economic analysis to explore the conflicting priorities and aims of the pharmaceutical industry, from both an American and worldwide perspective. This work includes chapters on topics such as the role of FDA regulations, alternative drugs or "nutraceuticals," and biotechnology and other industries related to pharmaceuticals.

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Published November, 2006
By Tobias Welte, Norbert Suttorp and Reinhard Marre
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
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Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a disease associated with high morbidity and mortality. The goal of this volume is to present state-of-the-art knowledge on epidemiology, clinical presentation, immunology, pathology, and diagnosis of CAP including the identification of "new pathogens".

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Published November, 2006
By Sue Black and Tim Thompson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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While DNA and fingerprints are clearly the favored methods of identification, they require a prior record and verifiable baseline for comparison. This work introduces a number of different specialties such as, foot and earprinting, dental interventions, skeletal anomalies, tattoos, facial reconstruction, personal effects and handwriting.

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Published November, 2006
By Norman Gratz and Norman G. Gratz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This important new reference details the distribution, prevalence and incidence of each of these diseases in Europe, the USA and Canada, along with detailed descriptions of their vectors, reservoirs and public health concerns. Essential reading for medical entomologists, medical zoologists, public health authorities and epidemiologists.

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Published October, 2006
By Stephen J. Kunitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Describes how ideas about the costs and benefits of industrialisation, and causes of disease, have been used from different ideological persuasions to explain the health of populations. This book focuses on ideas that have been influential in debates: factors such as standard of living, community and its loss, inequality, and globalisation.

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Published October, 2006
By Nanny Wermuth and Reinhold Streit
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer-Lehrbuch
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Das Buch enthalt viele Beispiele fur Fragen, die mit Hilfe von Daten beantwortet werden koennen und einfache Zahlenbeispiele fur verschiedene Arten von Analysen.

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Published October, 2006
By Roland Rau
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Demographic Research Monographs
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Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon, but variations from culture to culture pose fascinating questions. This book investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality as they do for mortality in general.

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Published October, 2006
By David Schottenfeld and Joseph F. Fraumeni
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Provides an account of cancer causes, incidence, morality, and survival patterns. This work includes chapters on molecular biomarkers, genetic modifiers of environmental risks, social class disparities in incidence and mortality, obesity, physical activity, chemoprevention, electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation.

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