The Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases : : Models and Applications / / Lisa Sattenspiel.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Biology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 44 line illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Introduction
- Chapter Two. The Art of Epidemic Modeling: Concepts and Basic Structures
- Chapter Three. Modeling the Geographic Spread of In uenza Epidemics
- Chapter Four. Modeling Geographic Spread I: Population-based Approaches
- Chapter Five. Spatial Heterogeneity and Endemicity: The Case of Measles
- Chapter Six. Modeling Geographic Spread II: Individual-based Approaches
- Chapter Seven. Spatial Models and the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease
- Chapter Eight. Maps, Projections, and GIS: Geographers' Approaches
- Chapter Nine. Revisiting SARS and Looking to the Future
- Bibliography
- Index