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Veterinary epidemiology /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Butterworth-Heinemann,
1986.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Veterinary Epidemiology; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. The development of veterinary medicine; Historical perspective; Contemporary veterinary medicine; Causality; New control strategies; Chapter 2. The scope of epidemiology; The uses of epidemiology; Types of epidemiological investigation; Components of epidemiology; Is epidemiology a science?; Further reading; Chapter 3. Some general epidemiological concepts; The cause of disease; Further reading; Chapter 4. Describing disease occurrence; The structure of animal populations.
- Measures of disease occurrenceMapping; Further reading; Chapter 5. Determinants of disease; Host determinants; Agent determinants; Environmental determinants; Interaction; Further reading; Chapter 6. The transmission and maintenance of infection; Horizontal transmission; Vertical transmission; Maintenance of infection; Further reading; Chapter 7. The ecology of disease; Basic ecological concepts; Further reading; Chapter 8. Patterns of disease; Basic epidemic theory; Trends in the temporal distribution of disease; Trends in the spatial and temporal distribution of disease; Further reading.
- Chapter 9. The nature of dataData elements; Representation of data: coding; Further reading; Chapter 10. Sources of data; Some general considerations; Sources of epidemiological data; Further reading; Chapter 11. Data storage and retrieval; Non-computerized recording techniques; Computerized recording techniques; Veterinary data bases; ANADIS; COSREEL; VMDP; Further reading; Chapter 12. Presenting numerical data; Some basic definitions; Some descriptive statistics; Statistical distributions; Displaying numerical data; Further reading; Chapter 13. Demonstrating association.
- Some basic techniquesMultivariate analysis; Statistical packages; Further reading; Chapter 14. Surveys; Surveys; Cluster sampling; Collecting information: questionnaires; Wording; Reliability; Validity; Further reading; Chapter 15. Observational studies; Further reading; Chapter 16. Serological epidemiology; Assaying antibodies; Serological estimations and comparisons in populations; Interpreting serological tests; Serum banks; Further reading; Chapter 17. Modelling; Types of model; Forecasting systems; Deterministic population models; Stochastic population models.
- Further veterinary applications of modellingFurther reading; Chapter 18. The economics of disease; Assessing the cost of disease; Cost-benefit analysis of disease control; Further reading; Chapter 19. Health and productivity schemes; Dairy health and productivity schemes; Pig health and productivity schemes; Sheep health and productivity schemes; Beef health and productivity schemes; Companion animal health schemes; Further reading; Chapter 20. The control of disease; Disease control and eradication; Eradication; Veterinary medicine towards the end of this century; Further reading.