Autore	Asplund Ingemark Camilla
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chicago, : Nordic Academic Press, 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (270 p.)
Soggetto topico	Narrative therapy Communication Data Collection Epidemiologic Methods Behavior Information Science Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms Investigative Techniques Quality of Health Care Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Public Health Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation Psychology Environment and Public Health Health Care Narration Psychiatry Health & Biological Sciences Psychotherapy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	91-87351-17-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1. Key Themes in the Study of the Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling; IDENTITY AND THERAPEUTIC NARRATIVE; 2. Narrative Identity and Psychotherapy; 3. From Single to Double Stories of Identity; 4. You Should Say Such Things that Mobile Phones Will Fall; Storytelling as a Personal Contact between Teller and Listener; COPING WITH THE PAST AND THE PRESENT; 5. More than Scapegoating; The Therapeutic Potential of Stories of Child-Killing Demons in Ancient Greece and Rome; 6. Dealing with Emotions; 7. Constructing Personal Historical Agency, Making Sense of the Past? 8. The Finnish Yellow Press as a Therapeutic Channel9. Negotiating Terror, Negotiating Love; Commemorative Convergence in Norway after the Terrorist Attack on 22 July 2011; NARRATIVE AND THERAPEUTIC METHODS; 10. Narrative Encounters in End-of-Life Care; 11. The Power of Communal Writing; The Possibilities of Poetry Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia; 12. Depression and Expression in Blog Diaries; About the Authors
Altri titoli varianti	Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480974303321

Autore	Robinson Laura
Pubbl/distr/stampa	[Place of publication not identified], : Blackwell Pub, 2005
Disciplina	615.9
Soggetto topico	Toxicology - Safety measures Environmental toxicology Chemicals Safety Management Occupational Health Risk Assessment Occupational Exposure Hazardous Substances Risk Safety Health Environmental Exposure Organization and Administration Risk Management Epidemiologic Measurements Environmental Pollutants Probability Population Characteristics Environmental Pollution Toxic Actions Health Services Administration Accident Prevention Public Health Statistics as Topic Chemical Actions and Uses Health Care Accidents Environment and Public Health Chemicals and Drugs Epidemiologic Methods Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms Quality of Health Care Investigative Techniques Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation Toxicology & Public Health Health & Biological Sciences
ISBN	1-4443-0549-2 0-470-79826-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910139385603321

Autore	Organization World Health
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (55 p.)
Disciplina	547.2
Altri autori (Persone)	UNAIDS
Collana	Concise International Chemical Assessment Document
Soggetto topico	Fluorine Nitration Phenols Environmental Pollution Risk Inorganic Chemicals Risk Management Organic Chemicals Epidemiologic Measurements Organization and Administration Chemicals and Drugs Probability Public Health Health Services Administration Statistics as Topic Environment and Public Health Epidemiologic Methods Health Care Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms Quality of Health Care Investigative Techniques Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation Risk Assessment Environmental Exposure Bromine Compounds
ISBN	92-4-068700-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; 2. IDENTITY AND PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; 3. ANALYTICAL METHODS; 4. SOURCES OF HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; 5. ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT, DISTRIBUTION, TRANSFORMATION, AND ACCUMULATION; 6. ENVIRONMENTAL LEVELS AND HUMAN AND EXPOSURE; 7. COMPARATIVE KINETICS AND METABOLISM IN LABORATORY ANIMALS AND HUMANS; 8. EFFECTS ON LABORATORY MAMMALS AND IN VITRO TEST SYSTEMS; 9. EFFECTS ON HUMANS; 10. EFFECTS ON OTHER ORGANISMS IN THE LABORATORY AND FIELD; 11. EFFECTS EVALUATION; 12. PREVIOUS EVALUATIONS BY IOMC BODIES REFERENCESAPPENDIX 1 - ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; APPENDIX 2 - CICAD PEER REVIEW; APPENDIX 3 - CICAD FINAL REVIEW BOARD; INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL SAFETY CARDS; RÉSUMÉ D'ORIENTATION; RESUMEN DE ORIENTACIÓN; THE CONCISE INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT SERIES
Altri titoli varianti	Tribromophenols
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910366060203321

Autore	Källén Anders
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chicester, : Wiley, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (392 p.)
Disciplina	570.1/5195 570.15195
Collana	Statistics in Practice
Soggetto topico	Biometry Biostatistics Models, Statistical Models, Theoretical Statistics as Topic Epidemiologic Methods Investigative Techniques Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms Public Health Therapeutics Quality of Health Care Environment and Public Health Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation Health Care Biology Health & Biological Sciences Biology - General
ISBN	1-283-40542-3 9786613405425 1-119-99268-0 1-119-99267-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Understanding Biostatistics; Contents; Preface; 1 Statistics and medical science; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 On the nature of science; 1.3 How the scientific method uses statistics; 1.4 Finding an outcome variable to assess your hypothesis; 1.5 How we draw medical conclusions from statistical results; 1.6 A few words about probabilities; 1.7 The need for honesty: the multiplicity issue; 1.8 Prespecification and p-value history; 1.9 Adaptive designs: controlling the risks in an experiment; 1.10 The elusive concept of probability; 1.11 Comments and further reading; References 2 Observational studies and the need for clinical trials2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Investigations of medical interventions and risk factors; 2.3 Observational studies and confounders; 2.4 The experimental study; 2.5 Population risks and individual risks; 2.6 Confounders, Simpson's paradox and stratification; 2.7 On incidence and prevalence in epidemiology; 2.8 Comments and further reading; References; 3 Study design and the bias issue; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 What bias is all about; 3.3 The need for a representative sample: on selection bias; 3.4 Group comparability and randomization 3.5 Information bias in a cohort study3.6 The study, or placebo, effect; 3.7 The curse of missing values; 3.8 Approaches to data analysis: avoiding self-inflicted bias; 3.9 On meta-analysis and publication bias; 3.10 Comments and further reading; References; 4 The anatomy of a statistical test; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Statistical tests, medical diagnosis and Roman law; 4.3 The risks with medical diagnosis; 4.3.1 Medical diagnosis based on a single test; 4.3.2 Bayes' theorem and the use and misuse of screening tests; 4.4 The law: a non-quantitative analogue; 4.5 Risks in statistical testing 4.5.1 Does tonsillectomy increase the risk of Hodgkin's lymphoma?4.5.2 General discussion about statistical tests; 4.6 Making statements about a binomial parameter; 4.6.1 The frequentist approach; 4.6.2 The Bayesian approach; 4.7 The bell-shaped error distribution; 4.8 Comments and further reading; References; 4.A Appendix: The evolution of the central limit theorem; 5 Learning about parameters, and some notes on planning; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Test statistics described by parameters; 5.3 How we describe our knowledge about a parameter from an experiment 6.3 Describing the sample: descriptive statistics
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910130878503321

Autore	Organization World Health
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (205 p.)
Disciplina	616.109234
Soggetto topico	Tuberculosis -- Epidemiology Tuberculosis -- Statistics Tuberculosis Tuberculosis - Epidemiology Tuberculosis - Statistical methods Public health surveillance Mycobacterium Infections Decision Support Techniques Statistics as Topic Public Health Epidemiologic Methods Medical Informatics Applications Investigative Techniques Medicine Actinomycetales Infections Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms Quality of Health Care Health Occupations Medical Informatics Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Bacterial Infections Environment and Public Health Information Science Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation Health Care Bacterial Infections and Mycoses Diseases Data Interpretation, Statistical Epidemiology Health & Biological Sciences Communicable Diseases
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	92-4-069325-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Analysis of aggregated TB notification data; 1.1 Aggregated notification data: what are they?; 1.2 Assessment and assurance of the quality of aggregated TB notification data; Data validation at data entry; Data validation after data entry; 1.3 Analysis of aggregate data; Rationale for analysis of trends; 1.4 Examples of analysis of trends; Notifications by time; Notifications by age; Notifications by sex; Notifications by place; Notifications by place and time; reasons for changes in notification rates over time 1.5 Limitations of aggregated notification data1.6 Summary; References; Annex 1 TB surveillance data quality standards with examples; Chapter 2 Analysis of case-based TB notification data; 2.1 Case-based notification data: what they are and why are they important; Steps in case-based data analyses; 2.2 Developing an analytic plan; 2.3 Preparing the dataset; Data cleaning; Addressing missing data; Identifying outliers; De-duplication of datasets; Re-coding variables linking datasets Sex Age (years) (Original, Continuous Variable Age Group (Recoded, Categorical Variable 0-25 years=1 26-50 years=2 >50 years=3 Height (m) (Original, Continuous Variable) Weight (kg) (Original, Continuous Variable) BMIFinalizing the dataset; 2.4 Data analysis: conducting and interpreting descriptive analyses; Univariate and bivariate analyses; Rates and trends; Other descriptive analyses; Other types of information used for further examination of data; 2.5 Data analysis: conducting and interpreting more complex analyses; 2.6 Communicating findings; 2.7 Conclusion; References Annex 2 Analytic plan exampleAnnex 3 Example of multivariable analysis to assess risk factors for loss to follow-up; Chapter 3 Using genotyping data for outbreak investigations; 3.1 Genotyping data: an overview; Introduction; Purpose and uses of genotyping; Intended audience; 3.2 Preparation of data; Differentiating TB strains; Identifying and naming clusters; 3.3 Analysing outbreaks; Excluding false-positive cases; Epidemiological links; Drug resistance patterns; Previous episodes of TB; Presenting epidemiological links between cases; 3.4 Analysing large clusters Displaying time, person and place3.5 Limitations of genotyping data; 3.6 Special considerations for genotyping in high TB burden settings; 3.7 Conclusion: using genotyping data for public health; References; Chapter 4 Analysis of factors driving the TB epidemic; 4.1 Ecological analysis; What can be explained with ecological analysis?; 4.2 TB incidence; 4.3 Using ecological analysis to understand TB epidemics; 4.4 Conceptual framework for ecological analysis; What if certain key information is unavailable for all domains?; How should we prioritize the domains and indicators to include? What if there are no data on something that experts deem as important?
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910460169503321