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
Autores principales: Sattenspiel, Lisa (Autor), Lloyd, Alun, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Communicable diseases > Epidemiology > Mathematical models.
Mathematical models.
MATHEMATICS > Applied.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
mathematical models.
Modeles mathematiques.
Maladies infectieuses > Épidemiologie > Modeles mathematiques.
Disease Outbreaks > statistics & numerical data
Epidemiologic Methods
Communicable Diseases > epidemiology
Communicable Diseases > transmission
Models, Theoretical
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 insights resulting from mathematical models. Models enabled authorities to better understand how the disease spread and to assess the relative effectiveness of different control strategies. In this book, Lisa Sattenspiel and Alun Lloyd provide a comprehensive introduction to mathematical models in epidemiology and show how they can be used to predict and control the geographic spread of major infectious diseases. --From publisher's description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781400831708

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