Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling

Name: Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling
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ISBN: 9780198565765

ISBN-10: 0198565763

ISBN-13: 9780198565765

Edition: 2009

Authors: Emilia Vynnycky, Richard White

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This title provides public health and infectious disease researchers with the tools to use and critically evaluate the mathematical models that are increasingly being used to interpret and predict the dynamics and control of infectious diseases.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 5/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Richard White MSc (Med Sci) MBChB FRCR Specialty Registrar Ninewells Hospital, Dundee



Preface



Introduction: the basics - infections, transmission and models




How are models set up? I. An introduction to difference equations



How are models set up? II. An introduction to differential equations



What do models tell us about the dynamics of infections?



Age patterns



An introduction to stochastic modelling



How do models deal with contact patterns?



Sexually transmitted infections



Special topics in infectious disease modelling


Appendix


Basic maths


Further reading


Abbreviations and glossary


Commonly used symbols


Useful equations