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
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
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
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