TY - BOOK AU - Sattenspiel,Lisa AU - Lloyd,Alun TI - The geographic spread of infectious diseases: models and applications T2 - Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology SN - 9781400831708 AV - RA643 .S39 2009eb U1 - 614.401/5118 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Communicable diseases KW - Epidemiology KW - Mathematical models KW - Models, Theoretical KW - Communicable Diseases KW - transmission KW - epidemiology KW - Epidemiologic Methods KW - Disease Outbreaks KW - statistics & numerical data KW - Maladies infectieuses KW - Épidémiologie KW - Modèles mathématiques KW - mathematical models KW - aat KW - MEDICAL KW - Health Risk Assessment KW - bisacsh KW - MATHEMATICS KW - Applied KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-278) and index; The art of epidemic modeling : concepts and basic structures -- Modeling the geographic spread of influenza epidemics -- Modeling geographic spread I : population-based approaches -- Spatial heterogeneity and endemicity : the case of measles -- Modeling geographic spread II : individual-based approaches -- Spatial models and the control of foot-and-mouth disease -- Maps, projections, and GIS : geographers' approaches -- Revisiting SARS and looking to the future N2 - 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 insights resulting from mathematical models. Models enabled authorities to better understand how the disease spread and to assess the relative effectiveness of different control strategies. In this book, Lisa Sattenspiel and Alun Lloyd provide a comprehensive introduction to mathematical models in epidemiology and show how they can be used to predict and control the geographic spread of major infectious diseases. --From publisher's description UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=329753 ER -