Ron Brookmeyer / Donna F. Stroup (eds.)

Monitoring the Health of Populations

Statistical Principles and Methods for Public Health Surveillance
Herausgeber: Brookmeyer, Ron; Stroup, Donna F

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Public health faces critical challenges ranging from outbreaks of new and old pathogens to the threat of bioterrorism and the impact of lifestyle and environmental changes on health. Modern tools of health surveillance and sound statistical practices are essential for meeting these challenges and providing accurate warnings about real public health threats without wasting resources on false alarms. Advances in statistical techniques, computing power and the Internet have led to many new approaches to monitoring population health, analyzing the data, and rapidly sharing it. This text explores the critical issues in the statistical analysis and interpretation of public health surveillance data. It covers statistical methods for detecting disease outbreaks and clusters, the use of survey methods, interpreting time trends and geographic patterns, exploratory statistical analysis of surveillance data, and web-based health reporting systems for the rapid detection of public health problems, among other topics. The methodological approaches are illustrated in discussions of several current public health issues, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, anthrax, health effects of particulate air pollution, and trends in prostate cancer. The methods are broadly applicable to surveillance systems and registries for numerous health conditions, e.g. infectious diseases, chronic diseases, adverse drug reactions. The book provides numerous illustrations, worked examples, and practical information for actually implementing the methods. It will serve as a reference for public health practitioners and as a textbook for courses on disease surveillance taken by students of statistics biostatistics, epidemiology or public health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780195146493
• ISBN-10: 0195146492
• Artikelnr.: 21152854

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Stephen B. Thacker and Jeffrey P. Koplan
* 1: Donna F. Stroup, Ron Brookmeyer, William D. Kalsbeek: Public
Health Surveillance in Action: A Framework
* 2: William D. Kalsbeek (University of North Carolina): The Use of
Surveys in Public Health Surveillance: Monitoring High Risk
Populations
* 3: Owen Devine (Centers for Disease Control): Exploring Temporal and
Spatial Patterns in Public Health Surveillance Data
* 4: Theodore R. Holford (Yale University): Temporal Factors in Public
Health Surveillance: Sorting Out Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
* 5: Ron Brookmeyer: Temporal Factors in Epidemics: The Role of the
Incubation Period
* 6: Ruth Etzioni, Larry Kessler, Dante di Tommaso (Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, all): Using Public Health Data to Evaluate
Screening Programs: Application to Prostate Cancer
* 7: Lance A. Waller (Emory University): Detecting Disease Clustering
in Time or Space
* 8: Paddy Farrington, Nick Andrews (PF: The Open University, UK; NA:
Communicalble Disease Surveillance Center, UK): Outbreak Detection:
Application to Infectious Disease Surveillance
* 9: Peter Diggle, Leo Knorr-Held, Barry Rowlington, Ting-li Su, Peter
Hawtin, Trevor Bryant (Lancaster University, all except TB, who is
with the University of Southampton): On-line Monitoring of Public
Health Surveillance Data
* 10: Scott L. Zeger, Francesca Dominici, Aidan McDermott, Jonathan M.
Samet (Johns Hopkins University, all): Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling
of Public Health Surveillance Data: A Case Study of Air Pollution and
Morality
* 11: Andrew Lawson (University of South Carolina): Some Considerations
in Spatial-Temoral Analysis of Public Health Surveillance Data
* 12: Sander Greenland (University of California, Los Angeles):
Ecologic Inference Problems in the Analysis of Surveillance Data
* 13: Ernest B. Hook, Ronald R. Regal (EH: University of California,
Berkley; RR: University of Minnesota Duluth): Completeness of
Reporting: Capture-Recapture Methods in Public Health Surveillance