Trajectory Analysis in Health Care

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.

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• Médico administração e gestão
• Farmacologia
• Saude pública e medicina preventiva
• Epidemiologia e estatística médica
• Ciência não-linear