This book, as others in the MDS series, is geared towards making the modelingof disease attractive to students and those with emerging interests in the subject. It is the intention of the authors that these students be able to go onto model local outbreaks and understand the power of contagion in the modern,global, highly interactive world. It is not meant as an exhaustive, high-level text in disease ecology or epidemiology. The book will likely be a small seminar course text or a supplementary text in infectious disease, population biology, pest and disease management, or biological modeling courses. Courses aretaught in departments of public health, epidemiology, environmental sciences,and biology. Typical class size: 20 students. A CD-Rom with STELLA and modelswill be included with the book. Introduces students to hands-on dynamic modeling in the context of disease, and challenges them to use their models and insights to explore interventions that may help restrain contagion The structure is based on the assumption that modeling is best learned by doing and by then critically evaluating the structure, performance and outcome of the model INDICE: From the contents Part I: Introduction. 1. The Why and How of Dynamic Modeling. 2. Theory and Concepts. 3. Insect Dynamics.- Part II: Applications. 4. Malaria and Sickle Cell Anemia. 5. Encephalitis. 6. Chagas Disease. 7. Lyme Disease. 8. Chicken Pox and Shingles. 9. Toxoplasmosis. 10. The Zebra Mussel. 11. Biological Control of Pestilence. 12. Western Corn Rootworm Population Dynamics and Coevolution. 13. Chaos and Pestilence. 14. Catastrophe and Pestilence. 15. Spatial Dynamics of Pestilence.- Part III: Conclusions. 16. Conclusions.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-09559-2
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés