Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death.(Book Review)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death

George Christakos, Ricardo A. Olea, Marc L. Serre, Hwa-Lung Yu, and Lin-Lin Wang

Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2005 ISBN: 3-540-25794-2 Pages: 320; Price: US $129.00

Because public health officials increasingly rely on mathematical models to help them prevent and control diseases, this book is a very timely addition to the literature. The authors' overall theme is that generating accurate and useful (to public health officials) mathematical models of disease epidemiology and the ...

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