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Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question--why her only son died--and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. The...
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Get the Summary of Donald McNeil's The Wisdom of Plagues in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Wisdom of Plagues" by Donald McNeil offers an in-depth exploration of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing from McNeil's experiences as a New York Times reporter. The book begins with the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, highlighting the initial underestimation of the virus and the challenges in reporting on the...
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Ethical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the growth of new and innovative medical technologies and...
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Since Aug 2018 there have been outbreaks of African swine fever in several provinces of China. At the end of 2018, the total amount of culled animals was 650,000. China's pig herd, by far the world's largest, was estimated then at 360 million animals. The pig should be half by the end of 2019 from a year earlier as an epidemic of African swine fever (ASF) sweeps through the world's top pork producer. Up to 200 million pigs have been culled or died...
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A History of Epidemics in Britain in two volumes is the most significant work of Charles Creighton, British physician and medical author. The work is divided in two parts. First volume covers the history of epidemics from 664 A.D., the year of the first pestilence in Britain which was chosen as a starting point, to the extinction of plague in 1665-66, which marks the end of a long era of epidemic sickness, including leprosy, poxes, various plagues,...
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This revised and updated edition of an important report looks at macro public policy interventions, community interventions, and individual level interventions in a variety of areas to ascertain 'what works' in practice. It includes new case studies, updated research references, and reference to cost effectiveness.
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New public health governance arrangements under the coalition government have wide reaching implications for the delivery of health inequality interventions. Through the framework of understanding health inequalities as a 'wicked problem' the book develops an applied approach to researching, understanding and addressing these by drawing on complexity theory. Case studies illuminate the text, illustrating and discussing the issues in real life terms...
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Con la aparición del COVID-19, ha crecido en la población general el interés en los modelos matemáticos de las enfermedades infecciosas. Es común escuchar sobre el número reproductivo básico R, el pico de la pandemia, las políticas de mitigación de la enfermedad, entre otras. Una de las contribuciones más importantes en epidemiología matemática es el modelo comportamental propuesto por Kermack y McKendrick formulado en 1927.
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.
Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio,...
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In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes, and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite. But while we chase the diseases we are already aware of, new ones are constantly emerging, like the coronavirus that spread across the world in 2020. At the same time, antimicrobial resistance is harnessing infections that we once knew how to control, enabling...
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Dissenting Voices-an Imprint of Abundant World Institute-is dedicated to helping create and foster the conditions that enable human flourishing and abundance everywhere. To these ends, we seek to inspire, inform, educate, encourage, enable, and support the application of critical thinking, imagination, and innovation to global challenges. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is one global grand challenge that is on everyone's mind, and is likely to remain...
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Excerpt: "It may be needless to acquaint the Reader why the following Sheets are published at this Time, we being all but too justly apprised of the Danger there may be, of wanting those Helps, which are here intended to be supplied, as far as such Means as these can do it."
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Excerpt: "Take an Onion and cut him overthwart, then make a little hole in each peece, the which you shall fill with fine Triacle, then set the pieces together again as they were before, then wrap them in a white linnen cloth. Putting it so to roast in the Embers and Ashes, then when it is roasted enough press out all the juice of it: and give the patient a spoonful thereof to drink, and ſo by Gods help he shall feel saſe and most undoubtedly be...
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Excerpt: "Good Councell against the plague. Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Nowe necessary to be obserued of euery Housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this Cittie. Written by a learned Phisition, for the health of his Countrey."
17) Data Types
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Data visualisation is sexy.So is Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian inference and Time Series analysis.As data analysts, we all like to do the sexy things, but it's the boring, more mundane and every day data tasks – like understanding the different types of data – that will make or break your analysis.Few people that have to do statistics as part of their research know and understand the statistical data types, and as a result struggle to get...
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A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19.
Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects but are limited to individuals and their families,...
19) Ebola outbreak
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Covers the history of the Ebola virus, the devastating 2014 epidemic, and the quarantine controversies that captured national headlines, exploring how the fear of a disease can sometimes be as dangerous as the disease itself.--
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As the world's population expands, so too does the risk of communicable disease and global pandemics. Consequently, healthcare has assumed a greater centrality in the public consciousness both in the United States and around the world. With various national and international organizations dedicated to epidemiological research and disease control, societal welfare has become an increasingly significant aspect of public policy. The historical, legal,...
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