Models for Infectious Human Diseases

Their Structure and Relation to Data

Graham Medley editor Valerie Isham editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th Mar '96

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Vital resource in infectious diseases, will especially appeal to workers in epidemiology, public health and biology.

Contains a breadth of different quantitative approaches to understanding the patterns of infectious diseases in populations, and the design of control strategies to lessen their effect. Describes research on diseases such as measles, AIDS and tropical parasitic infections. A vital resource for any involved in this hugely important area.Infectious disease accounts for more death and disability globally than either non-infectious disease or injury. This book contains a breadth of different quantitative approaches to understanding the patterns of infectious diseases in populations, and the design of control strategies to lessen their effect. The contributors bring a great variety of mathematical expertise (including deterministic and stochastic modelling and statistical data analysis) and involvement in a wide range of applied fields across the spectrum of biological, medical and social sciences. The aim is to increase interaction between specialities by describing research on many of the infectious diseases that affect humans, including both viral diseases like measles and AIDS and tropical parasitic infections. The papers are divided into groups dealing with problems relating to transmissible diseases, vaccination strategies, the consequences of treatment interventions, the dynamics of immunity, heterogeneity of populations, and prediction.

Review of the hardback: '… a valuable reference tool.' Robert Hiorns, Mathematics Today

ISBN: 9780521453394

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm

Weight: 930g

516 pages