The Epidemiology of Childhood Disorders

Ivan Barry Pless (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

552 Seiten

1994
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-507516-8 (ISBN)

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This book discusses biological considerations, patterns of occurrence, risk factors and the impact of interventions for each type of disorder. The disorders reviewed include the morbidity of childhood such as infections, birth defects, asthma, and cerebral palsy, and also emotional problems, intentional and non-intentional injuries, and suicide.

This book draws on the experience of an international group of paediatric epidemiologists, all of whom are world authorities in their field. In a consistent format they discuss biological considerations, patterns of occurrence, risk factors and the impact of interventions for each type of disorder. The disorders reviewed include not only the traditional morbidity of childhood such as infections, birth defects, asthma, and cerebral palsy, but also the new morbidity: emotional problems, intentional and non-intentional injuries, and suicide. This book will have wide appeal to health professionals at every level as it draws on personal experience combining paediatrics and epidemiology.

Foreword
1: I. B. Pless: Concepts, Terms and Methods
2: C. Power: The Special Role of Longitudinal Studies
Part I: Perinatal Disorders
3: E. Alberman: Low Birthweight and Prematurity
4: I. Leck: Structural Birth Defects
5: J. Clarke: Genetic Disorders
Part II: Infectious Disorders
6: C. Peckham and S. Logan: Congenital Infections
7: N. Graham: Respiratory Infections
8: R. Glass and C. Bern: Gastroenteritis
9: E. Mortimer: Communicable Diseases
Part III: Mental and Behavioral Disorders
10: S. Richardson and H. Koller: Mental Retardation
11: J. Anderson and J. Werry: Emotional and Behavioral
12: D. Shaffer and R. Hicks: Suicide
Part IV: Injuries and Violence
13: F. Rivara: Unintentional Injuries
14: K. Christoffel: Intentional Injuries (Homicide and Violence)
Part V: Chronic Disorders
15: T. Nolan: Asthma
16: C. Stiller: Malignancies
17: F. Stanley and E. Blair: Cerebral Palsy
18: M. Wadsworth: Prediction of Adult Disease

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.1994
Zusatzinfo	line figures and tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	238 x 165 mm
Gewicht	1089 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10	0-19-507516-1 / 0195075161
ISBN-13	978-0-19-507516-8 / 9780195075168
Zustand	Neuware