Models for Infectious Human Diseases
Subtitle: Their Structure and Relation to Data (Publications of the Newton Institute)
Contributors: Valerie Isham (Editor); Graham Medley (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 29, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780521453394
Subjects: Epidemiology & medical statistics; Human biology; Infectious & contagious diseases; Mathematical modelling; Science; Infectious Diseases; Infectious And Parasitic Diseases; Mathematical Models In Biology; Mathematics; Probability & Statistics - General; Science/Mathematics; General; Epidemiology--Mathematical models--Congresses; Medical / Epidemiology; Medical / Infectious Diseases; Medical-Infectious Diseases; Congresses; Communicable Diseases; Epidemiology; Mathematical models
First sentence: Among diseases with long development times - from inception to diagnosis to death, or both - feature breast and cervical cancer, end-stage organ failure and cardiovascular disease; all four have aspects in common with HIV disease, but its transmissibility by many routes sets it apart from the rest.