Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models, and Public Health / edited by Alexander Krämer, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Klaus Krickeberg.

Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models, and Public Health /

Hardly a day goes by without news headlines concerning infectious disease threats. Currently the spectre of a pandemic of influenza A|H1N1 is raising its head, and heated debates are taking place about the pro’s and con’s of vaccinating young girls against human papilloma virus. For an evidence-base...

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Main Author: Krämer, Alexander
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kretzschmar, Mirjam, Krickeberg, Klaus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
Series:Statistics for biology and health.
Subjects:
Statistics.
Medicine.
Emerging infectious diseases.
Cartography.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only).
Table of Contents:
  • The global burden of infectious diseases (Pinheiro, Mathers, Krämer)
  • Global challenges for infectious disease epidemiology (Krämer, Khan)
  • Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (Löscher, Prüfer-Krämer)
  • Infectious disease control policies and the role of governmental and intergovernmental organizations (Krause)
  • Principles of infectious disease epidemiology (Akmatov, Krämer, Kretzschmar)
  • Social risk factors (Krickeberg, Klemperer)
  • Molecular typing and clustering analysis as a tool for epidemiology of infectious diseases (Bruisten et al.)
  • Epidemiological surveillance (Krickeberg, Reintjes)
  • Outbreak investigations (Reintjes, Zanuzdana)
  • Geographic information systems (Hostert, Grübner)
  • Methods and concepts of the epidemiology of infectious diseases (Mykolajczyk)
  • Mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology (Kretzschmar, Wallinga)
  • Immunity to infectious diseases (Ulrichs)
  • Principles and practice of vaccinology (Pebody)
  • Health economics of infectious diseases (Welte)
  • Airborne transmission: influenza and tuberculosis (Ulrichs)
  • Infectious childhood diarrhoea in developing countries (Larson)
  • Bloodborne and sexual transmission: HIV/AIDS (van den Berg, Lindenburg, Coutinho)
  • Bloodborne and sexual transmission: hepatitis B and C (Zuure, Hahne)
  • Sexual transmission: Chlamydia trachomatis (Johnson, Berman)
  • Vectorborne transmission: malaria, dengue, and yellow fever (Jelinek)
  • Nosocomial transmission: Meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (Bonten, Bootsma)
  • Eight infectious diseases and cancer: a human papillomavirus (HPV) (Franco, Trottier).

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