Disease mapping and risk assessment for public health /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lawson, Andrew (Andrew B.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester ; New York : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., [1999]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Disease mapping and its uses
  • Bayesian and empirical Bayes approaches to disease mapping
  • Addressing multiple goals evaluating region-specific risk using Bayesian methods
  • Disease mapping with hidden structures using mixture models
  • Inference for extremes in disease mapping
  • Edge effects in disease mapping
  • A review of cluster detection methods
  • Comparison of general tests for spatial clustering
  • Markos chain Monte Carlo methods for putative sources of hazard and general clustering
  • Statistical evaluation of disease cluster alarms
  • Disease clustering for uncertain locations
  • Empirical studies of cluster detection : different cluster test in application to German cancer maps
  • Introduction to spatial models in ecological analysis
  • Bayesian ecological modelling
  • Spatial regression models in epidemiological studies
  • Multilevel modelling of area-based health data
  • A review of modelling approaches in health risk assessment around putative sources
  • Disease mapping using the relative risk function estimated from areal data
  • The power of focused score tests under misspecified cluster models
  • Case-control analysis of risk around putative sources
  • Lung cancer near point emission sources
  • Environmental epidemiology, public health advocacy and policy
  • The character and the public health implications of ecological analyses
  • Computer geographic analysis : a commentary on its use and misuse in public health
  • Estimating the presence and the degree of heterogeneity of disease rates
  • Ecological regression with errors in covariates : an application
  • Case studies in Bayesian disease mapping for health and health service research in Ireland
  • An analysis of determinants of regional variation in cancer incidence : Ontario, Canada
  • Congenital anomalies near hazardous waste landfill sites in Europe
  • An analysis of the geographical distribution of leukaemia incidence in the vicinity of a suspected point source : a case study
  • Lung cancer mortality in women in Germany 1995 : a case study in disease mapping