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Burton, Gail. Candida: The silent epidemic : vital information to detect, combat, and prevent yeast infections. Fairfield, CT: Aslan Pub., 2003.

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Dunn, Marion. The bird flu crisis: Strategies to help survive the coming epidemic : helpful information offeriing natural choices in healthcare. Toledo, OH: Marion Dunn, 2006.

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Mike, Blyth, and Ibegbunam Henry C, eds. AIDS is real and it's in our church: Information about AIDS in Nigeria, how to prevent HIV infection, and encouragement towards a Christian response to the AIDS epidemic. Bukuru, Plateau State, Nigeria: African Christian Textbooks, 2005.

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Garland, C. Jean. AIDS is real and it's in our church: Information about AIDS in Nigeria, how to prevent HIV infection, and encouragement towards a Christian response to the AIDS epidemic. Bukuru, Plateau State, Nigeria: African Christian Textbooks, 2003.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee. The federal response to the AIDS epidemic: Information and public education : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One hundredth Congress, first session, March 16, 1987. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1987.

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Garg, Lalit, Chinmay Chakraborty, Saïd Mahmoudi, and Victor S. Sohmen, eds. Healthcare Informatics for Fighting COVID-19 and Future Epidemics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72752-9.

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Chikungunya: La médiatisation d'une crise : presse, humour, communication publique. Cortil-Wodon: E.M.E., 2011.

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Services, California Legislature Senate Committee on Health and Human. Bioterrorism and public health: Assessing California's preparedness, informational hearing. Sacramento, CA: Senate Publications, 2001.

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California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health and Human Services. Bioterrorism and public health: Assessing California's preparedness, informational hearing. Sacramento, CA: Senate Publications, 2001.

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Egrova, M. A. (Marii︠a︡ Aleksandrovna), editor and Moskovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ i︠u︡ridicheskiĭ universitet imeni O.E. Kutafina, eds. Pravovoe regulirovanie iskusstvennogo intelekta v uslovii︠a︡kh pandemii i infodemii: Monografii︠a︡. Moskva: Prospekt, 2020.

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Pandemics and bioterrorism: Transdisciplinary information sharing for decision-making against biological threats. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2010.

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Anohin, Yuriy, Boris Narkevich, and Nikolay Shimanovskiy. Application of nuclear and radiation technologies in medicine. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1882570.

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The textbook contains information on new technologies of radiation diagnostics and therapy of oncological diseases, new and promising therapeutic and diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, new directions in nuclear medicine in Russia and in developed foreign countries, as well as on the coordination of efforts of international organizations to maintain and improve the health of the population of different countries. The active activity of the Rosatom State Corporation on the introduction and development of programs for the non-energy use of nuclear and radiation technologies to improve the health of the world's population, as well as training and training programs for high-tech medicine, combating widespread epidemic diseases, improving health systems in Russia and developing countries is shown. The basic nuclear-physical and therapeutic-diagnostic requirements for radionuclides and radiopharmaceutical drugs used in nuclear medicine are described. Information on the clinical application of new therapeutic and diagnostic tools developed in Russia for the needs of nuclear medicine is presented. In a comparative aspect, a brief description of educational programs of academic training of specialists for high-tech medicine in Russia and developed countries is given. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation 03.04.02 "Physics" (profile "Medical physics", educational programs "Medical physics of nuclear medicine" and "Medical physics of radiation diagnostics and therapy") and 30.05.02 "Medical biophysics". It is intended for students of master's programs and postgraduates of various specialties — biomedical, physico-chemical, biological, environmental, pharmaceutical. It can be useful for university teachers, as well as for specialists in the application of nuclear and radiation technologies, developers of new methods, systems and technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in humans.
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Vasterman, Peter, ed. From Media Hype to Twitter Storm. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982178.

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The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed 'much ado about nothing' but in many cases these media storms have play an important role in political issues, scandals and crises. Twitter storms sometimes ruin reputations within hours. Although different concepts are used, such as media hypes, news waves, media storms, information cascades or risk amplification, all the studies in this book refer to the same process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, building up huge news waves in the media or rapidly spreading social epidemics in the social media. This book offers the first comprehensive overview of this important topic. It is not only interesting for scholars and students in media and journalism, but also for professionals in PR and communication, crisis communication and reputation management.
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Daniel, Zeng, ed. Biosurveillance and biosecurity: International workshop, Biosecure 2008, Raleigh, NC, USA, December 2, 2008 : proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 2008.

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Cartographies of disease: Maps, mapping, and medicine. Redlands, Calif: ESRI Press, 2004.

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Burton, Gail. Candida, the Silent Epidemic: Vital Information to Detect, Combat and Prevent Yeast Infections. Gail Burton, 1999.

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Burton, Gail. Candida: The Silent Epidemic : Vital Information to Detect, Combat, and Prevent Yeast Infections. 2nd ed. Aslan Publishing, 2003.

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Unsecurity: Information security is failing. Breaches are epidemic. How can we fix this broken industry? Beaver's Pond Press, 2019.

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Larchet, Jean-Claude, and Andrew Torrance. New Media Epidemic: The Undermining of Society, Family, and Our Own Soul. Holy Trinity Monastery, 2019.

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Polanta, Silvester V. Dr. HIV Epidemic in the United States Continues: Index of New Information and Guide-Book for Consumers, Reference and Research. Abbe Pub Assn of Washington Dc, 2002.

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Polanta, Silvester V. HIV Epidemic in the United States Continues: Index of New Information and Guide-Book for Consumers, Reference and Research. Abbe Pub Assn of Washington Dc, 2002.

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Seaman, Rebecca M., ed. Epidemics and War. ABC-CLIO, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400647062.

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Through its coverage of 19 epidemics associated with a broad range of wars, and blending medical knowledge, demographics, geographic, and medical information with historical and military insights, this book reveals the complex relationship between epidemics and wars throughout history. How did small pox have a tremendous effect on two distinct periods of war—one in which the disease devastated entire native armies and leadership, and the other in which technological advancements and the application of medical knowledge concerning the disease preserved an army and as a result changed the course of events? Epidemics and War: The Impact of Disease on Major Conflicts in History examines fascinating historical questions like this and dozens more, exploring a plethora of communicable diseases—viral, fungal, and/or bacterial in nature—that spread and impacted wars or were spread by some aspect of mass human conflict. Written by historians, medical doctors, and people with military backgrounds, the book presents a variety of viewpoints and research approaches. Each chapter examines an epidemic in relation to a period of war, demonstrating how the two impacted each other and affected the populations involved directly and indirectly. Starting with three still unknown/unidentified epidemics (ranging from Classical Athens to the Battle of Bosworth in England), the book's chapters explore a plethora of diseases that spread through wars or significantly impacted wars. The book also examines how long-ended wars can play a role in the spread of epidemics a generation later, as seen in the 21st-century mumps epidemic in Bosnia, 15 to 20 years after the Bosnian conflicts of the 1990s.
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Newman, Mark. Epidemics on networks. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805090.003.0016.

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This chapter discusses the spread of diseases over contact networks between individuals and the methods used to model this process. The chapter begins with an introduction to the classic models of mathematical epidemiology, including the SI model, the SIR model, and the SIS model. Models for coinfection and competition between diseases are also discussed, as well as “complex contagion” models used to represent the spread of information. The remainder of the chapter deals with the behavior of these models on networks, where the behavior of spreading diseases depends strongly on network structure. It is shown that the SIR model maps to a bond percolation process on networks, allowing us to solve for static properties such as the total number of individuals infected in a disease outbreak. The case of the configuration model is developed in detail and the calculations are extended to competing diseases, coinfection, and complex contagion. Time-dependent behavior of diseases on networks is also studied using various differential equation approximations, including pair approximations and degree-based approximations.
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Mahmoudi, Saïd, Lalit Garg, Chinmay Chakraborty, and Victor S. Sohmen. Healthcare Informatics for Fighting COVID-19 and Future Epidemics. Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.

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Mahmoudi, Said, Lalit Garg, Chinmay Chakraborty, and Victor S. Sohmen. Healthcare Informatics for Fighting COVID-19 and Future Epidemics. Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.

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Medicine, Institute of, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Bruce M. Altevogt, Kristin Viswanathan, and Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events. Public Engagement on Facilitating Access to Antiviral Medications and Information in an Influenza Pandemic: Workshop Series Summary. National Academies Press, 2012.

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Bianconi, Ginestra. Multilayer Networks. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753919.001.0001.

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Multilayer networks are formed by several networks that interact with each other and co-evolve. Multilayer networks include social networks, financial markets, transportation systems, infrastructures and molecular networks and the brain. The multilayer structure of these networks strongly affects the properties of dynamical and stochastic processes defined on them, which can display unexpected characteristics. For example, interdependencies between different networks of a multilayer structure can cause cascades of failure events that can dramatically increase the fragility of these systems; spreading of diseases, opinions and ideas might take advantage of multilayer network topology and spread even when its single layers cannot sustain an epidemic when taken in isolation; diffusion on multilayer transportation networks can significantly speed up with respect to diffusion on single layers; finally, the interplay between multiplexity and controllability of multilayer networks is a problem with major consequences in financial, transportation, molecular biology and brain networks. This field is one of the most prosperous recent developments of Network Science and Data Science. Multilayer networks include multiplex networks, multi-slice temporal networks, networks of networks, interdependent networks. Multilayer networks are characterized by having a highly correlated multilayer network structure, providing a significant advantage for extracting information from them using multilayer network measures and centralities and community detection methods. The multilayer network dynamics (including percolation, epidemic spreading, diffusion, synchronization, game theory and control) is strongly affected by the multilayer network topology. This book will present a comprehensive account of this emerging field.
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Diary of practical observations on malignant cholera at New-York: Describing the symptoms and treatment of the disease in all its stages, with a statement of cases, and a variety of information connected with and illustrative of the subject. Halifax, N.S: Central Board of Health of Nova-Scotia, 1992.

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Medicine, Institute of, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Bruce M. Altevogt, Kristin Viswanathan, and Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events. Public Engagement on Facilitating Access to Antiviral Medications and Information in an Influenza Pandemic: Workshop Series Summary. National Academies Press, 2012.

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Public Engagement on Facilitating Access to Antiviral Medications and Information in an Influenza Pandemic: Workshop Series Summary. National Academies Press, 2012.

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Board on Health Sciences Policy, Bruce M. Altevogt, Kristin Viswanathan, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, and Barbara Fain. Public Engagement on Facilitating Access to Antiviral Medications and Information in an Influenza Pandemic: Workshop Series Summary. National Academies Press, 2012.

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Cleary, Paul, Sam Ghebrehewet, and David Baxter. Essential statistics and epidemiology. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198745471.003.0022.

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This chapter provides a grounding in basic statistics, descriptive epidemiology, analytical epidemiology, and hypothesis testing appropriate for health protection practitioners. The analysis of categorical data using frequency distributions, and charts, and the interpretation of epidemic curves is described. The description of quantitative data including central tendency, standard deviation, and interquartile range is concisely explained. The role of geographical information systems and different disease map types is used to demonstrate how disease clusters may be detected. Determining possible association between specific risk factors and outcome is described in the section on analytical epidemiology, using the risk ratio and the odds ratio. The use of these in different study/investigation types is explained. The importance of confounding, matching, and standardization in study design is described. The final part of the chapter covers hypothesis testing to distinguish between real differences and chance variation, and the use of confidence intervals.
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Abraham, Sunil. Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data in India. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685515.003.0012.

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This chapter focuses on India’s policies and practices regarding systematic government access to private-sector data. India does not have many laws that explicitly prescribe or prohibit systematic government access to private-sector data apart from provisions in laws such as the Information Technology Act, Anti-Money Laundering Act, and Epidemic Diseases Act. Nevertheless, the appetite in some parts of the government for systematic access appears to be growing. In February 2012, the Intelligence Bureau wrote to the Department of Telecom demanding that telecom operators and ISPs cooperate to enable comprehensive real-time tracking of Internet usage on mobile phones. This included the establishment of a core group “for finalisation of Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) for Internet and GPRS service, and standardisation of parameters that will have to be stored by mobile phone companies….” The chapter also discusses proposals for the NATGRID and the Comprehensive Monitoring System.
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Simpson, A., E. Aarons, and R. Hewson. Marburg and Ebola viruses. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0038.

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Infection with Marburg and Ebola viruses cause haemorrhagic fevers that are characterized by organ malfunction, bleeding complications, and high mortality. The viruses are members of the family Filoviridae, a group of membrane-enveloped filamentous RNA viruses. Five distinct species of the genus Ebolavirus have been reported; the genus Marburgvirus contains only one species. Both Marburg and Ebola virus diseases are zoonotic infections whose primary hosts are thought to be bats. The initial human infection is acquired from wildlife and subsequent person-to-person spread propagates the outbreak until it is brought under control. Ebola and Marburg viruses are classified as hazard or risk group 4 pathogens because of the very high case fatality rates observed for Ebola and Marburg virus diseases, the frequency of person-to-person transmission and community spread, and the lack of an approved vaccine or antiviral therapy. This mandates that infectious materials are handled and studied in maximum containment laboratory facilities. Epidemics have occurred sporadically since the discovery of Marburg in 1967 and Ebola virus in 1976. While some of these outbreaks have been relatively large, infecting a few hundreds of individuals, they have generally occurred in rural settings and have been controlled relatively easily. However, the 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa was different, representing the first emergence of the Zaire species of Ebola in a high-density urban location. Consequently, this has been the largest recorded filovirus outbreak in both the number of people infected and the range of geographical spread. Many of the reported and confirmed cases were among people living in high-density and impoverished urban environments. The chapter summarizes the most up-to-date taxonomic status of the family Filoviridae. It focuses on Marburg and Ebola viruses in a historical context, culminating in the 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa. Virus biology of the most well-studied member is described, with details of the viral genome and the protein machinery necessary to propagate viruses at the molecular and cellular level. This information is used to build a wider-scale virus–host perspective with detail on the pathology and pathogenesis of Ebola virus disease. The consequences of cell infection are examined, together with our current understanding of the immune response to Ebola virus, leading to a broader description of the clinical features of disease. The chapter closes by drawing information together in a section on diagnosis, ecology, prevention, and control.
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Lombardo, Joseph S., and David L. Buckeridge. Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.

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Lombardo, Joseph S., and David L. Buckeridge. Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.

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Disease surveillance: A public health informatics approach. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2007.

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Lombardo, Joseph S., and David L. Buckeridge. Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach. Wiley-Interscience, 2007.

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Lombardo, Joseph S., and David L. Buckeridge. Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2006.

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Hassink, Sandra G., and Richard Trubo, eds. A Parent’s Guide to Childhood Obesity. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/9781581105322.

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This award-winning guide provides solutions and resources for parents and other caregivers who are concerned about childhood obesity and overweight children. Obesity among children has reached epidemic levels in the US, affecting more than 9 million children. Not surprisingly, obesity can limit a child’s physical activity and affect his or her self-esteem. But what’s more worrisome are the health risks associated with being too heavy: type 2 diabetes, hypertension, liver disease and other diseases and conditions. A Parent’s Guide to Childhood Obesity: A Roadmap to Health provides solutions and resources for parents and other caregivers who are concerned about childhood obesity and overweight children, and for those parents and others who simply want to learn how to help children lead healthier, more active lives. This comprehensive guide offers: Sensible, nutritional information and guidelines, emphasizing balanced and nourishing meals, Strategies for dealing effectively with a variety of parenting challenges, Approaches for encouraging increased physical activity, Questionnaires to evaluate how food is used in families Guidance on how to partner with pediatricians, extended family members, schools, and child care providers to help ensure success.
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Systems Analysis and Design Advances in Management Information Systems. M.E. Sharpe, 2009.

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Hinshaw, Stephen P., and Katherine Ellison. ADHD. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190223809.001.0001.

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Rates of diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, throughout America and the rest of the world. U.S. rates of youth diagnosis have increased 40% from just a decade ago. Adults with ADHD are now the fastest-growing segment of the population receiving diagnosis and medication. The disorder is painful and sometimes disabling for individuals and tremendously costly for society; yet, widespread misinformation, skepticism, and unanswered questions have jeopardized effective diagnosis and treatment. Researched and written by Stephen Hinshaw, an international expert on ADHD, and Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author, ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know is the go-to book for authoritative, current, accurate, and compelling information about the global ADHD epidemic. This book addresses questions such as: • Is ADHD a genuine medical condition or a means of pathologizing active and exploratory behavior? • Do medications for ADHD serve as needed treatments, or are they attempts at social control, designed to bolster profits of pharmaceutical firms? • Has the ADHD label become a ruse by which parents can game the educational system for accommodations? • How do symptoms and impairments related to ADHD differ between girls and women and boys and men? • Why are ADHD medications often used as performance enhancers by college and high-school students? ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know® clears the air of the most polarizing and misleading information that abounds, providing straight talk and sound guidelines for educators, policymakers, health professionals, parents, and the general public. It shows the reality of ADHD but does not ignore the forces that have pushed up rates of diagnosis to alarmingly high levels.
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Thurner, Stefan, Peter Klimek, and Rudolf Hanel. Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821939.001.0001.

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to quantitative approaches to complex adaptive systems. Practically all areas of life on this planet are constantly confronted with complex systems, be it ecosystems, societies, traffic, financial markets, opinion formation, epidemic spreading, or the internet and social media. Complex systems are systems composed of many elements that interact with each other, which makes them extremely rich dynamical systems showing a huge range of phenomena. Properties of complex systems that are of particular importance are their efficiency, robustness, resilience, and proneness to collapse. The quantitative tools and concepts needed to understand the co-evolutionary nature of networked systems and their properties are challenging. The intention of the book is to give a self-contained introduction to these concepts so that the reader will be equipped with a conceptual and mathematical toolset that allows her to engage in the science of complex systems. Topics covered include random processes of path-dependent processes, co-evolutionary dynamics, the statistics of driven nonequilibrium systems, dynamics of networks, the theory of scaling, and approaches from statistical mechanics and information theory. The book extends well beyond the early classical literature in the field of complex systems and summarizes the methodological progress over the past twenty years in a clear, structured, and comprehensive way. The book is intended for natural scientists and graduate students.
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Saks, Michael J., and Stephan Landsman. Closing Death's Door. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190667986.001.0001.

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Closing Death’s Door explores innovative legal strategies to address the challenge of medical error. In the United States today, several hundred thousand patients die in hospitals each year because of errors in medical treatment—the nation’s third leading cause of death. The legal mechanism designed to deal with this epidemic of injury and death is the medical malpractice system. It has failed to stem the tide of iatrogenic harm. Among the reasons are the costliness of the malpractice system, its availability to only a minuscule percentage of those harmed, and decades of “tort reform” efforts that have effectively extinguished the system for all but the most egregious claims. In 1999, in To Err Is Human, the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) sounded an alarm about the toll taken by medical error. Its proposed solution—a set of reporting systems to document problems and generate data on which solutions might be based—has been a failure. The time has come for a fresh look at what the law might do to contribute to patient safety. To begin a conversation about legal innovations designed to spur healthcare system improvements directed at reducing harmful medical errors, this book explores a number of possible steps, including well-designed economic incentives to stimulate greater investment in safety; promotion of systems approaches to safer delivery of care; government regulation and surveillance in especially risky treatment contexts; and encouragement of a range of technological improvements, especially involving information technology.
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In-Depth Qualitative Analysis of Noncommunicable Diseases. Multisectoral Action Plans in the Caribbean. Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.37774/9789275120101.

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As the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) continues to have its negative impact on lives, livelihoods, and economies across the globe, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO), has taken action to strengthen its technical cooperation with Member States in addressing these diseases, their risk factors, and related issues, through the development and implementation of the Regional Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of NCDs. The establishment of national NCD plans is one of the four main global NCD commitments, however only a selected number of Caribbean countries have been able to establish such plans. In an effort to provide information and share knowledge of successful experiences and practices in establishing national NCD plans, this in-depth qualitative analysis was conducted in the selected countries. This report highlights the good practices and successes that can be replicated in other countries that have not yet established their NCD plans. It also identifies areas that can be strengthened for greater effectiveness in NCD prevention and control. PAHO/WHO anticipates the use of this report not only as a tool for countries, but also as a guide for enhanced technical cooperation and collaboration between PAHO and its Member States. As such, governments, civil society, the private sector, as well as other development organizations can use these plans to carry out comprehensive, effective, multisectoral interventions for NCD prevention and control throughout the Caribbean.
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Bartone, John C. Cancer Epidemics Are World-Wide and Affecting All Parts of the Human Body: Index of New Information and Guide-Book for Consumers, Reference and Research. Abbe Pub Assn of Washington Dc, 2002.

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Bartone, John C. Cancer Epidemics Are World-Wide and Affecting All Parts of the Human Body: Index of New Information and Guide-Book for Consumers, Reference and Research. Abbe Pub Assn of Washington Dc, 2002.

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Kawachi, Ichiro, Iain Lang, and Walter Ricciardi, eds. Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198800125.001.0001.

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Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practitioners in the field. Structured into practical sections addressed towards professional competencies and translating evidence into policy, this Handbook provides concise summaries and covers real issues from across the globe, providing a world of experience at your fingertips. Easy-to-use, concise, and practical, this Handbook is divided into seven parts that focus on the vital areas of this broad discipline. Reflecting recent advances, the most promising developments in the practice of public health are presented, along with essential summaries of the core disciplines. Specific sections are devoted to the development of professional competencies including negotiation, communicating risk to the public, community action, and translating evidence into policy. This Handbook will assist students, trainees, and practitioners around the world with its enriched information on the management of disasters, epidemics, health behaviour, acute and chronic disease prevention, community and government action, environmental health, vulnerable populations, and more.
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Kierner, Cynthia A. Inventing Disaster. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652511.001.0001.

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When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries, exploring its roots in the revolutions in science, information, and emotion that were part of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and America. Beginning with the collapse of the early seventeenth-century Jamestown colony, ending with the deadly Johnstown flood of 1889, and highlighting fires, epidemics, earthquakes, and exploding steamboats along the way, Cynthia A. Kierner tells horrific stories of culturally significant calamities and their victims and charts efforts to explain, prevent, and relieve disaster-related losses. Although how we interpret and respond to disasters has changed in some ways since the nineteenth century, Kierner demonstrates that, for better or worse, the intellectual, economic, and political environments of earlier eras forged our own twenty-first-century approach to disaster, shaping the stories we tell, the precautions we ponder, and the remedies we prescribe for disaster-ravaged communities.
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Doherty, Peter C. Pandemics. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199898107.001.0001.

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From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disease across large geographic areas, pandemics can disseminate globally with incredible speed as humans and goods move faster than ever before. While vaccines, drugs, quarantine, and education can reduce the severity of many outbreaks, factors such as global warming, population density, and antibiotic resistance have complicated our ability to fight disease. Respiratory infections like influenza and SARS spread quickly as a consequence of modern, mass air travel, while unsafe health practices promote the spread of viruses like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C. In Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty addresses the history of pandemics and explores the ones that persist today. He considers what promotes global spread, the types of pathogens most present today and the level of threat they pose, and how to combat outbreaks and mitigate their effects. Concise and informative, Pandemics will serve as the best compact consideration of this topic, written by a major authority in the field.
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