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HIV is the leading cause of premature death in Thailand. Since the first case of AIDS was reported in 1984 more than one million Thais have been infected. The social, human and economic costs of this burden are enormous. The Thai government has [...]
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Jean-Claude Berthelemy, Author ; Josselin Thuilliez, Author |Malaria still claims a heavy human and economic toll, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa. Even though the causality between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region. This a[...]
How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases—and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics. After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long ago when [...]
Claude Rumeau-Rouquette, Author ; Danièle Blondel, Author ; Monique Kaminski, Author ; Gérard Bréart, Author | Paris : Flammarion | Collection Statistique en biologie et en médecine | 1995Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de donner une initiation solide en épidémiologie dans son sens large, c'est-à-dire : l'étude de la fréquence des indicateurs de santé, des déterminants des maladies et l'évaluation des méthodes de prévention. Il conce[...]
This brief but comprehensive introduction to social psychiatry begins with the basic approaches used to study the various problems, including clinical observation, demography, statistics, sociology and epidemiology. It describes the whole perple[...]
Michel Garenne, Author | Clermont-Ferrand : Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (Ferdi) | Document de travail / Working Paper | 2020-09-30L’étude porte sur les six premiers mois de l’épidémie de Covid-19 dans les 56 pays et territoires d’Afrique. Elle relie les paramètres épidémiologiques (incidence, létalité) à des paramètres démographiques (densité de population, u[...]
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Jean-Claude Berthelemy, Author ; Josselin Thuilliez, Author ; Ogobara Doumbo, Author ; Jean Gaudart, Author |Background In spite of massive efforts to generalize efficient prevention, such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITN) or long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), malaria remains prevalent in many countries and ITN/LLINs are still only used [...]
4e de couv : "New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed – repeatedly. Europe first declared ‘war’ on cholera in the 19th century. It didn’t d[...]
Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is roote[...]
Ce document présente la situation de l'épidémie d'infection à VIH/sida dans le monde en novembre 2004. Un tableau récapitulatif donne une vue d'ensemble de l'épidémie. La première partie est spécifiquement consacrée à la situation de l'épidémie[...]
Marie-Pascal Pomey, Publishing director ; Jean-Pierre Poullier, Publishing director ; Benoist Lejeune, Publishing director | Paris : Ellipses | 2000La santé publique est un domaine qui touche tout un chacun. Elle a comme objectif principal d'améliorer la santé des populations et des individus. Pour y parvenir, de nombreuses disciplines y contribuent comme la médecine, l'épidémiologie, l'hyg[...]
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Mitchel Klein, Author ; David G. Kleinbaum, Editor | New York : Springer | Statistics for biology and health (Print), ISSN 2197-5663 | 2012This greatly expanded third edition of Survival Analysis- A Self-learning Text provides a highly readable description of state-of-the-art methods of analysis of survival/event-history data. This text is suitable for researchers and statisticians[...]
Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. One of New Jersey's seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Tom[...]
