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Medicine & Public Health
Biostatistics
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Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are characterized by a new or an increased occurrence within the last few decades. They include the following categories Emerging diagnosis of infectious diseases: old disea...
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Principles of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
In this chapter, principles and concepts of modern infectious disease epidemiology Epidemiology are presented. We delineate the role of epidemiology for public health and discuss the characteristics of infecti...
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Outbreak Investigations
The aim of outbreak epidemiology is to study an epidemic in order to gain control over it and to prevent further spread of the disease. Generally means a “sudden occurrence,” while in the epidemiological sen...
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Global Challenges of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
As we have seen in the last chapter, infectious and parasitic diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in develo** countries. Approximately 26% of global deaths and 26% of...
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Infectious Disease Control Policies and the Role of Governmental and Intergovernmental Organisations
Public health is generally regarded as the typical domain of national if not local governments, which takes into account local necessities arising from the epidemiologic situation, the health-care system and t...
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Mathematical Models in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
The idea that transmission and spread of infectious diseases follows laws that can be formulated in mathematical language is old. In 1766 Daniel Bernoulli published an article where he described the effects of...
