Health Statistics

Summary: Recent years have seen an explosion in new kinds of data on infectious diseases, including data on social contacts, whole genome sequences of pathogens, biomarkers for susceptibility to infection, serological panel data, and surveillance data. The Handbook of Infectious Disease Data Analysis provides an overview of many key statistical methods that have been developed in response to such new data streams and the associated ability to address key scientific and epidemiological questions. A unique feature of the Handbook is the wide range of topics covered. Key features Contributors include many leading researchers in the field Divided into four main sections: Basic concepts, Analysis of Outbreak Data, Analysis of Seroprevalence Data, Analysis of Surveillance Data Numerous case studies and examples throughout Provides both introductory material and key reference material

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Population Dynamics of Pathogens
Infectious Disease Data from Surveillance, Outbreak Investigation, and Epidemiological Studies
Key Concepts in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Key Parameters in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Contact Patterns for Contagious Diseases
Basic Stochastic Transmission Models and Their Inference
Analysis of Vaccine Studies and Causal Inference
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Outbreak Data
Approximate Bayesian Computation Methods for Epidemic Models
Iterated Filtering Methods for Markov Process Epidemic Models
Pairwise Survival Analysis of Infectious Disease Transmission Data
Methods for Outbreaks Using Genomic Data
Persistence of Passive Immunity, Natural Immunity (and Vaccination)
Inferring the Time of Infection from Serological Data
Use of Seroprevalence Data to Estimate Cumulative Incidence of Infection
Analysis of Serological Data with Transmission Models
Analysis of Multivariate Serological Data
Mixture Modeling
Modeling Infectious Disease Distributions : Applications of Point Process Methods
Prospective Detection of Outbreaks
Underreporting and Reporting Delays
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Surveillance Data
Analysing Multiple Epidemic Data Sources
Forecasting Based on Surveillance Data
Spatial Mapping of Infectious Disease Risk.

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Section 1. Uniform hospital statistics and classification of account.

Summary: The HCPCS Level 2 National code system contains more than 2300 codes which are used to report supplies, services and procedures to medicare and medicaid programs nationwide.

Summary: "The Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) is the data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care in the United States. Operated by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, HMCA preserves and disseminates data collected by selected research projects funded by the Foundation and facilitates secondary analyses of the data. Our goal is to increase understanding of health and health care in the United States through secondary analysis of RWJF-supported data collections."--Website.

Summary: Includes these baseline data for California's 58 counties: population, socioeconomic status, births, infant/perinatal deaths, mortality by cause and age-adjusted/age-specific rates, communicable diseases, county health/sociodemographic indicators, Medi-Cal/Medicaid, health resources and services utilization.

Summary: Contains data from over 4000 Medicare-certified hospitals across the country. Enables comparisons between hospitals to determine how well they adhere to practices that have been shown to improve patient care. It includes information about patient satisfaction, number of procedures, medical payment and volume, etc.

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