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Synopsis
This book combines mathematical models with extensive use of epidemiological and other data to achieve a better understanding of the overall dynamics of populations of pathogens or parasites and their human hosts. The authors thus provide an analytic framework for evaluating public health strategies aimed at controlling or eradicating particular infections. With rising concern for programmes of primary health care against such diseases as measles, malaria, river blindness, sleeping sickness, and schistosomiasis in developing countries, and the advent of HIV/AIDS and other "emerging viruses", such a framework is increasingly important. Throughout, the mathematics is used as a tool no more and no less for thinking clearly about fundamental and applied problems having to do with infectious diseases. The book is divided into two major parts, one dealing with microparasites (viruses, bacteria, and protozoans) and the other with macroparasites (helminths and parasitic arthropods). Each part begins with simple models, developed in a biologically intuitive way, and then goes on to develop more complicated and realistic models as tools for public health planning. This book synthesizes previous work in this rapidly growing area with a good deal of new material.
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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)
About the Author
Roy M. Anderson is at Imperial College, London. Robert M. May is at University of Oxford and Imperial College, London.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0198545991
- ISBN 13 9780198545996
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages765
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