Short description
Provides an analytic framework for evaluating public health measures aimed at eradicating or controlling communicable diseases. The authors demonstrate the practical power of mathematical modelling on epidemiology.
Long description
This book provides an analytical framework for evaluating public health measures aimed at eradicating or controlling communicable diseases such as malaria, measles, river blindness, sleeping sickness, schistosomiasis, and AIDS. The contributors stress the importance of keeping the theory in close touch with the facts, and their data illustrate the practical power of mathematical modelling in epidemiology.;This book should be of interest to epidemioogists, ecologists, parasitologists, applied mathematicians, specialists in tropical medicine.
Review
Senior citizens of the medical profession who are faced with decisions about the direction of future efforts to control disease would do well to read this book, and teachers of courses on public health should find its perspectives invaluable. The Lancet
Table of contents
- A framework for discussing the population biology of infectious diseases
- Part I Microparasites
- biology of host
- microparasite associations
- The basic model
- statics
- static aspects of eradication and control
- the basic model
- dynamics
- dynamic aspects of eradication and control
- beyond the basic model
- empirical evidence for inhomogeneous mixing
- age
- related transmission rates
- genetic heterogeneity
- social heterogeneity and sexually transmitted diseases
- spatial and other kinds of heterogeneity
- endemic infections in developing countries
- indirectly transmitted microparasites
- Part II Macroparasites
- biology of host
- macroparasite associations
- the basic model
- statics
- the basic model
- dynamics
- acquired immunity
- heterogeneity within the human community
- indirectly transmitted helminths
- experimental epidemiology
- parasites, genetic variability, and drug resistance
- the ecology and genetics of host
- parasite associations