Biostatistical Aspects of Health and Epidemiology

Contents: I. Demographic transition and population policy: 1. From hypothesis to reality/Krishna Singh. 2. Identification of demographically weak districts/Padam Singh. 3. An investigation into the socio-economic differentials of child morality in Uttar Pradesh/Arvind Pandey, S. Rajaram and Damodar Sahu. 4. Fertility transition in Uttar Pradesh: evidences and policy implications/F Ram, Arvind Pandey, T.K. Roy and Zaheer Khan. 5. Sociology of AIDS : some issues/A.K. Sharma. 6. An analysis of the child spacing effect of the utilization of maternal health care services in some selected states of India/Arvind Pandey, Pradeep Mishra and Ashutosh Ojha. 7. Population stabilization in Maharashtra: constraint and prospects/F. Ram and Usha Ram. 8. Vitality of statistics and epidemics of AIDS: a Hoax/Raj Mani Pandey. II. Issues in reproductive and child health: 9. Reproductive morbidity among women in weaker sections in Kolkata metropolitan area/S. Sadhu, B.N. Bhattacharya, P.K. Majumdar and K.L. Mukherjee. 10. Status of ARI and Diarrhoea among children and their health seeking behaviour in Kolkata metropolitan area/Partha De, B.N. Bhattacharya and K.L. Mukherjee. 11. Gynaecological and some common morbidities among women beyond childbearing age and their health seeking behaviours in weaker sections of Kolkata metropolitan area/S. Sadhu, B.N. Bhattacharya, P.K. Majumdar and K.L. Mukherjee. 12. Functioning of management information system under RCH Programme: a case study of UP/V.K. Tiwari and Pardeep Kumar. 13. Determinants of unmet need for contraception in Uttar Pradesh/C. Ramanujam, K. Shanmuga Vadivel and C. Muthu. 14. On estimation of differential Anaemia: a study from National Family Health Survey II/Krishna Mohan PVT. III. Biostatistical methods for life time data: 15. Child survival in an Indian state: an epidemiological understanding with Cox proportional hazard model/Sada Nand Dwivedi and Rajvir Singh. 16. Limitations of generalized estimating equations: preliminary checks for correct application to Binary data/M. Ataharul Islam and Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury. 17. Potential years of life lost due to cancer mortality: urban experience/N.S. Murthy, S. Sharma, A. Juneja and A.B. Mitra. 18. Survival analysis and beyond/Venkata Putcha. 19. On the use of Mukherjee Islam model to estimate higher approximations to selected parameters of UN model life tables/Anil C. Mathew and S. Krishnamoorthy. 20. An extension of GEE for repeated measures with polytomous responses/Jahida Gulshan and M. Ataharul Islam. 21. An analysis of cause specific mortality in India (Rural), 1982-95: a life table approach/Labananda Choudhury and Ramananda Rajbongshi. IV. Statistical applications in epidemiology: 22. A study on the spread and progression of HIV/AIDS in India/M. Thomas and Arvind Pandey. 23. Back calculation of HIV and AIDS in Tamil Nadu/T. Anbupalam, R. Ravanan and P. Venkatesan. 24. Log-linear models for shift in age of onset in different birth cohort in psychiatric patients/K. Thennarasu. 25. Statistical considerations in modeling of M. tuberculosis infection with neural networks/R. Selvaraj and G. Gopal. 26. Discriminating groups with Wald test values/Mukesh Srivastava, S.K. Mandal and M. Abbas. 27. Construction of reinforced balanced incomplete block designs/M.K. Sharma. V. Probability models in health and biology: 28. The systematic component of variation in the distribution of open birth interval: an assessment/K.B. Pathak, Arvind Pandey and U.S. Mishra. 29. A probability model for open birth interval in equilibrium birth process/C.M. Pandey, Uttam Singh, B.N. Bhattacharya, K.K. Singh and P.K. Mishra. 30. Some population growth models under stability conditions/P.K. Singh, Uttam Singh, C.M. Pandey, K.N.S. Yadav and A.K. Mishra. 31. Statistical models for estimation of human performance/S.S. Verma. VI. Clinical epidemiology: 32. Global increase in kidney cancer incidence, 1973-1992/Aleyamma Mathew, Susan S. Devesa, Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. and Wong-Ho Chow. 33. Comparison of antibiotics resistance pattern of Salmonella Typhi/G. Nath, M. Pandey, V.K. Upadhyay and S. Kar. 34. Psychometric properties of PANSS/D.K. Subbakrishna, B.N. Gangadhar, N. Janakiramiah and N. Murali. 35. Bacteriological pollution of drinking water and incidence of water-borne enteric diseases in Varanasi City/M. Pandey, G. Nath, S. Kar and V.K. Upadhyay. 36. Study of some variables in Acute Myocardial Infarction—an univariate prognostic analysis/S.V. Kakade, P.M. Durgawale, D.T, Shirke, D.B. Phalke, R.V. Kakade, V.D. Phalke and Y.R. Kadam. 37. Medical termination of pregnancy program: an analysis of 748 terminations in a Medical College Hospital/R.C. Ram, S.K. Singh, Abha Singh and Sarita Dubey. 38. Enyzmuria levels in immediate post-transplant period: a prospective study/S. Chinchole, B. Mukhopadhyay, V. Lobo and M. Rajapurkar. "The Book Statistical Aspects of Health and Epidemiology is an outcome of the 19 Annual Conference of Indian Society for Medical Statistics organized by the Department of Biostatistics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. It covers issues of national importance like Population Policy and Demographic Transition, Reproductive and Child Health, HIV and AIDS. The book also presents almost all pertinent Statistical methods applied to descriptive and clinical epidemiology. The book contains extremely useful reference material for students and researchers in the area of health, medicine, biology and population sciences