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A Practical, Up-To-Date Guide To Modern Methods In The Analysis Of Time To Event Data.
The rapid proliferation of powerful and affordable statistical software packages over the past decade has inspired the development of an array of valuable new methods for analyzing survival time data. Yet there continues to be a paucity of statistical modeling guides geared to the concerns of health-related researchers who study time to event data. This book helps bridge th… More >>

Applied Survival Analysis, Textbook and Solutions Manual: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data

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This training package has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. It provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users. The package contains five training modules with slides that can be delivered separately or in one session. The modules cover the following topics: introduction to drugs, HIV and harm reduction; Outreach to injecting drug users; Drug-dependency treatment; Needle and… More >>

Orientation on Harm Reduction. Three-hour Training Course: Participant Manual

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Hypertension remains the major treatable risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease, stroke, heart attach and heart failure. The need for more effective management of hypertension is obvious: even in developed societies such as the UK and the USA, few than one-third of hypertensive patients are being adequately treated. As a result, many hundreds of thousands of people are dying unnecessarily. Since the last edition of Fast Facts – Hypertension was published 3… More >>

Hypertension

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This book tries to develop social capital as an analytical concept in sociology and applies it in an empirical study of health service utilization among people who live with HIV/AIDS in New York City. Gender is one of the most important socio-demographic factors influencing social capital, through gender roles and gender characteristics. However, few studies have attempted to address social capital, health and gender simultaneously. This book investigates the differ… More >>

Gender and Social Capital: Structured Utilization of Health Services among People with HIV/AIDS in New York City

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Key Topics in Chronic Pain is designed to help the professional understand the working of the chronic pain clinic, its patients and its treatments. Separate chapters describe the various clinical pain syndromes commonly encountered and their management. Emphasis is placed on the management of conditions as recommended by randomised controlled trials. Key Topics in Chronic Pain is invaluable for professionals and for students preparing for the FRCA examinations…. More >>

Key Topics in Chronic Pain

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The future place of medicines in health care is both exciting and uncertain. With an aging population, an increasing number of chronic sick, a growing range of treatment options and a developing European market, the one certainty is that medication patterns will change radically over the next 15 years or so. How the future might look, in terms of quality, volume and cost of pharmacotherapy, is the subject of this report. Four scenarios for the future are s… More >>

The Future of Medicines in Health Care: Scenario Report Commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios

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Parkinson’s disease is one of the most distressing and disabling illnesses of later life, but effective management and support of both patients and carers can offer enormous improvement in quality of life. This second edition of “Fast Facts: Parkinson’s Disease” is a thorough update on the original text. New sections include welding-induced parkinsonism, non-motor symptoms, transcranial ultrasound scanning, sleep disorders and autonomic problems. The book also cover… More >>

Parkinson’s Disease

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Based on extensive research initiated by the UK Home Office, Reducing Crime offers an objective look at the effectiveness of criminal justice interventions in the reduction of crime. Bringing together information about where, for whom and at what cost these interventions are effective, the book examines alcohol prevention and drug treatment studies; courts, sentencing and police interventions; probation and prison interventions; and situational burglary and housing … More >>

Reducing Crime: The Effectiveness of Criminal Justice Interventions

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Johns Hopkins brain researcher Avery Z. Conner provides a list of one hundred pressing questions facing the field of psychiatry. If these questions are answered, treatment of mental illness will improve substantially. The subjects addressed in the book include: brain neurotransmitter systems, depression and mania, other mental illnesses and addictions, personality, mechanisms of existing drugs, and new drugs needed…. More >>

100 Questions Psychiatry Should Face

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This publication summarizes the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) and cerebrovascular disease (CeVD). A commentary on the evidence for cardiovascular prevention in peripheral vascular disease and diabetes is also included. Each review of evidence is followed by a short summary of clinical recommendations for secondary prevention. A review of other considerations influencing policy-makers in the i… More >>

Prevention of Recurrent Heart Attacks and Strokes in Low and Middle-Income Populations

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