Published August, 2006
By Amanda Killoran, Catherine Swann, Michael P Kelly, Simon Ellis, Antony Morgan, Astero Kanaris, Louise Millward, Bhash Naidoo and Loraine Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book outlines the policy context of research in the field of health inequalities, documents approaches to evidence-based public health practice in the UK, advances understanding and debate on methodological challenges and difficulties, and assesses progress in putting evidence into practice.

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Published August, 2006
By Ross C. Brownson, Diana B. Petitti and R.C. Brownson
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Applies traditional epideiologic methods for determining disease etiology to the real-life applications of public health and health services research. This text contains a chapter on the development and use of systematic reviews and one on epidemiology and the law.

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Published August, 2006
By Lemuel A. Moye
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The 2nd Edition of this popular book emphasizes patient and community protection, illustrates the correct use of statistics in health care research for healthcare workers and adds considerable new and updated information.

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Published August, 2006
By Ronald M. Lauer, Stephen R. Daniels and Trudy L. Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Reviews the findings that allow physicians to identify and manage children and adolescents who are at the highest risk for the development of premature cardiovascular disease in later life. This book covers cholesterol levels, blood pressure, body size, obesity, coronary artery calcification and carotid artery thickness.

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Published August, 2006
By Thomas A. Lang and Michelle Secic
Publisher: Eurospan (American College of Physicians)
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Makes many of the basic and advanced concepts of biostatistics more accessible to readers. Focusing on how appropriate statistical presentation can enhance both comprehension and credibility, this work acts as a reference guide for those with either a rudimentary or an advanced statistical background.

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Published July, 2006
By M.A. Lewis, Manfred Dietel, Peter Scriba, W.K. Raff, M. A. Lewis, M. Dietel, P. Scriba and W. K. Raff
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings
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This volume contains an advanced level discussion on the appropriateness of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in modern postmenopausal women on the basis of evidence provided by recent epidemiological studies. It focuses, however, on cancer risk and on risk of breast cancer in particular.

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Published July, 2006
By Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia, Evelyn Bromet and Evelyn J. Bromet
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford Psychiatry Series
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Tracing the brief history of psychiatric epidemiology, this book describes the study of risk factors as causes of mental disorders. It also discusses approaches to investigation of biologic, genetic, or social causes, and is useful for clinical researchers, public health practitioners, or psychiatric epidemiologists-in-training.

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Published June, 2006
By Brian S. Everitt, Christopher R. Palmer and EVERITT
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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During the last twenty years statistical methodology has become of central importance in research studies in medicine and also in day-to-day clinical practice.

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Published June, 2006
By Noel S. Weiss and Noel Weiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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Examining the principles and methods of research on the evaluation of factors affecting the outcome of illness, this book contains topics as the assessment of the use of diagnostics and screening tests and their role in improving the outcome of illness, and the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy through experimental and non experimental studies.

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Published June, 2006
By M.R. Smallman-Raynor, A.D. Cliff and Andrew D. Cliff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
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This book is a world geography of poliomyelitis from antiquity to the present day. In the twentieth century, poliomyelitis emerged to become a global crippler and killer. But with the development of preventive vaccines in the 1950s poliomyelitis looks set to be the first disease since smallpox in 1979 to be eliminated by direct human intervention.

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