Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology

Andrew B Lawson editor Sudipto Banerjee editor Robert P Haining editor Maria Dolores Ugarte editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:4th Apr '16

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Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology explains how to model epidemiological problems and improve inference about disease etiology from a geographical perspective. Top epidemiologists, geographers, and statisticians share interdisciplinary viewpoints on analyzing spatial data and space–time variations in disease incidences. These analyses can provide important information that leads to better decision making in public health.

The first part of the book addresses general issues related to epidemiology, GIS, environmental studies, clustering, and ecological analysis. The second part presents basic statistical methods used in spatial epidemiology, including fundamental likelihood principles, Bayesian methods, and testing and nonparametric approaches. With a focus on special methods, the third part describes geostatistical models, splines, quantile regression, focused clustering, mixtures, multivariate methods, and much more. The final part examines special problems and application areas, such as residential history analysis, segregation, health services research, health surveys, infectious disease, veterinary topics, and health surveillance and clustering.

Spatial epidemiology, also known as disease mapping, studies the geographical or spatial distribution of health outcomes. This handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of state-of-the-art approaches to determine the relationships between health and various risk factors, empowering researchers and policy makers to tackle public health problems.

"In 2008, CRC Press started publishing the Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods. Apparently the series ispopular as it is growing rapidly, with 13 volumesprinted now and 7 announced. It is easy to understandwhy: the books are attractive in content, presentationand price. The present volume is no exception.The book has been edited by first-class experts, whoalso contributed a number of chapters. The book’swebsite gives a table of the contents of the 35chapters. It documents the rich variety of subjects. … I can only recommend this book."
—Paul Eilers, ISCB News, May 2017

ISBN: 9781482253016

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1406g

702 pages