Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling
Subtitle: The Case of Black Death
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 22, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9783540257943
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Environmental Studies; Science; Science/Mathematics; Epidemiology; Earth Sciences - Geology; Environmental Science; Black Death; Environmental Modelling; Geosstatistics; Science / Environmental Science; Spatial Sciences; Stochastic Modelling; Disease Outbreaks; Epidemiologic Methods; Europe; Plague
First sentence: Public health is viewed as the science and practice of protecting and improving the health of a human population, as by preventive medicine, health education, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures, and monitoring of environmental hazards.