A practical textbook devoted to developing and strengthening problem-solving and decision-making leadership competencies of healthcare administration students and healthcare management professionals. The text describes the "never assume" mindset and the structured method that drives evidence-based, action-oriented problem-solving.
The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics
The riveting account of how asymptomatic transmission drove COVID-19's global spread and catalyzed interventions to control it. Why was COVID-19 so difficult to contain and so devastating to people and economies worldwide? In Asymptomatic, author Joshua S. Weitz explains how silent transmission enabled COVID-19's massive and tragic global impact. ......
Since it first appeared in 1996, the open-source programming language R has become increasingly popular as an environment for statistical analysis and graphical output. This is the first textbook to present classical biostatistical analysis for epidemiology and related public health sciences to students using the R language.
Provides the essential biostatistical concepts, oncology-specific examples, and applicable problem sets for medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and surgical oncologists. All examples are relevant to oncology and demonstrate how to apply core conceptual knowledge and methods related to hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, ......
Written by nurses for nurses, this graduate-level text disseminates the core principles of epidemiology within a population health framework and provides practical knowledge nurses can use to analyze and improve healthcare in the community. Informed by the evolution of epidemiological science resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, this book ......
Fundamentals of Epidemiology is a foundational resource that equips students with a strong understanding of both the principles and real-world applications of the science of public health. Its applied approach, demonstrating epidemiological concepts in action in a variety of different settings, uniquely prepares students for the challenges and ......
This innovative text for graduate and undergraduate nursing students fills a void in global health nursing literature by providing essential tools and strategies for building and sustaining productive international partnerships. Based on the premise that partnership is paramount for sustainable outcomes, the book demonstrates how nurses can build ......
Opportunities in Global Health Nursing, whether as a career or as a short-term experience for personal and professional growth, are vast and the rewards significant. This book presents first-hand accounts from nurses from all professional levels, who describe their experiences and provide practical insights for nurses interested in delving into ......
Health Science Statistics using R and R Commander has been written for students, researchers and professionals who need a practical guide to the subject. It is a comprehensive introduction to statistics in the health sciences combined with a hands-on practical guide to R (and related free software).
The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease
In an attempt to engender a calm and effective response to the problem of AIDS, this work examines the many ways in which diseases, particularly catastrophic infectious and contagious diseases, are and have been biologically and socially defined.
Infectious Disease Epidemiology: An Introduction is a foundational textbook for public health and related health science degrees. It provides a comprehensive public health strategy for understanding and managing the spread of infectious diseases. This unique book offers an integrated approach that covers the important methods underlying the ......
Contains all you need to know to understand statistics in medicine. Medical Statistics Made Easy has been a perennial bestseller since the first edition was published (it is consistently a #1 bestseller in medical statistics on Amazon).
Provides a modern clinical approach to managing stroke and other cerebrovascular problems in infants, children, and adolescents. This book incorporates data from clinical trials and case series, recommendations from the American Heart Association consensus paper on the management of pediatric stroke, and information on new diagnostic techniques.
Practical Implementation Science is designed for graduate health professional and advanced undergraduate students who want to master the steps of using implementation science to improve public health. Engaging and accessible, this textbook demonstrates how to implement evidence-based practices effectively through use of relevant theories, ......
Recognizing Reality is a clarion call for broader perspectives in a time of global crisis, for a differentiated understanding of current events, especially Covid, and for a deepening of dialogue, in Martin Buber’s sense of the word.
The only biostatistics resource written specifically for MSN and DNP nursing students, this text provides a unique graphic representation of data to help students understand difficult analytic information. Modelled on an effective and proven method of learning-graphical illustrations first, technical details second-the text helps students ......
This essential guide provides a clear, accessible review of the use of statistics in pathology studies. Spanning topics such as exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics as well as the use of comparative statistics, concordance analysis, categorical and continuous data regression analyses, count data, survival analyses, decision point ......
A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association
This book summarizes the progress made over the last decade in understanding the differential diagnosis and epidemiology of tardive dyskinesia, as well as risk factors, course, and treatment.
