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
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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