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The geographic spread of infectious diseases : models and applications /

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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Основни автори: Sattenspiel, Lisa, (Author), Lloyd, Alun, 1970- (Author)
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ℗♭2009.
Серия: Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=329753
Подобни документи: Print version:: Geographic spread of infectious diseases.
Съдържание:
  • 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.