The geographic spread of infectious diseases : models and applications /

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The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than fifty million people worldwide. The SARS epidemic of 2002-3, by comparison, killed fewer than a thousand. The success in containing the spread of SARS was due largely to the rapid global response of public health authorities, which was aided by insight...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sattenspiel, Lisa (Autor), Lloyd, Alun, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology.
Temas:
Communicable diseases > Epidemiology > Mathematical models.
Mathematical models.
Models, Theoretical
Communicable Diseases > transmission
Communicable Diseases > epidemiology
Epidemiologic Methods
Disease Outbreaks > statistics & numerical data
Maladies infectieuses > Épidémiologie > Modèles mathématiques.
Modèles mathématiques.
mathematical models.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
MATHEMATICS > Applied.
Mathematical models
Communicable diseases > Epidemiology > Mathematical models
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The art of epidemic modeling : concepts and basic structures
  • Modeling the geographic spread of influenza epidemics
  • Modeling geographic spread I : population-based approaches
  • Spatial heterogeneity and endemicity : the case of measles
  • Modeling geographic spread II : individual-based approaches
  • Spatial models and the control of foot-and-mouth disease
  • Maps, projections, and GIS : geographers' approaches
  • Revisiting SARS and looking to the future.

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