Mapping Disease Transmission Risk
Subtitle: Enriching Models Using Biogeography and Ecology
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781421414737
Subjects: Medical geography; Epidemiology
Description: This book illuminates new and more effective infectious disease mapping methods and integrates biogeographic and ecological factors with spatial models. The author treats disease transmission areas for what they are--distributions of species. He argues that complex, fragmented, and highly irregular disease patterns can only be understood when underlying environmental drivers are considered. The result is an modeling approach that challenges static spatial models and provides a framework for recasting disease mapping.