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Trajectory Analysis in Health Care / by David W. Hollar.
Springer Nature - Springer Medicine eBooks 2018 English International Available online
Springer Nature - Springer Medicine eBooks 2018 English International- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollar, David W., Jr., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Health promotion.
- Health administration.
- Epidemiology.
- Pharmacy management.
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory.
- Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes.
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
- Health Administration.
- Local Subjects:
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Epidemiology.
- Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory.
- Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes.
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
- Health Administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XVI, 264 pages 63 illustrations, 49 illustrations in color)
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- This innovative volume introduces Trajectory Analysis, a new systems-based approach to measuring nonlinear dynamics in continuous change, to public health and epidemiology. It synthesizes influential strands of statistical and probability science (including chaos theory and catastrophe theory) to complement existing methods and models used in the health fields. The computational framework featured here pinpoints complex cause-and-effect processes in behavioral change as individuals and populations adjust to health interventions, with examples from neuroscience and cardiology. But this is no mere academic exercise, as the author illustrates how these methods can be harnessed toward finding real-world answers to longstanding public health problems, starting with treatment recidivism. Included in the coverage: · The universality of physical principles in the analysis of health and disease · The problem of recidivism in healthcare intervention studies · Stability and reversibility/irreversibility of health conditions · Chaos theory and sensitive dependence on initial conditions · Applications in health monitoring and geographic systems · Simulations, applications, and the challenge for public health A stimulating new take on statistics with powerful implications for future study, practice, and policy, Trajectory Analysis in Health Care should interest public health epidemiologists, researchers, clinicians, and policymakers. .
- Contents:
- Longitudinal Data in Health Care: Opportunities and Necessity.-The Problem of Recidivism in Health Care Intervention Studies
- Current Epidemiological Methods
- Longitudinal Data Analysis Methods
- Linearity Versus Nonlinearity in Variable Associations and Time
- Stability and Reversibility/Irreversibility of Health Conditions
- Chaos Theory and Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions
- Poincare Return Maps
- Health Conditions and Behaviors as Topological Surfaces
- Applying Jacobian Matrices to Health Trajectories
- The Lyapunov Exponent
- Phase Transitions in Health and Health Behaviors
- Applications in Cardiology and Neuroscience
- Applications in Health Monitoring and Geographic Systems
- Causality and Inference
- Health Care Interventions for Long-Term Positive Results
- Appendix A. Mathematical Background
- Appendix B. Sample Programming Code for Examples.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9783319596266
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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