geographic spread of infectious diseases
Subtitle: models and applications
By: Lisa Sattenspiel with contributions from Alun Lloyd.
Contributors: Lloyd, Alun, 1970-
Series: Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691121321
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology -- Mathematical models; Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology; Communicable Diseases -- transmission; Disease Outbreaks -- statistics & numerical data; Epiemiologic Methods; Models, Theoretical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The art of epidemic modeling : concepts and basic structures; title: Modeling the geographic spread of influenza epidemics; title: Modeling geographic spread I : population-based approaches; title: Spatial heterogeneity and endemicity : the case of measles; title: Modeling geographic spread II : individual-based approaches; title: Spatial models and the control of foot-and-mouth disease; title: Maps, projections, and GIS : geographers' approaches; title: Revisiting SARS and looking to the future.