Modeling and Control of Infectious Diseases in the Host

• Author : Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 15 February 2019

Modeling and Control of Infectious Diseases in the Host: With MATLAB and R provides a holistic understanding of health and disease by presenting topics on quantitative decision-making that influence the development of drugs. The book presents modeling advances in different viral infections, dissecting detailed contributions of key players, along with their respective interactions. By combining tailored in vivo experiments and mathematical modeling approaches, the book clarifies the relative contributions of different underlying mechanisms within hosts of the most lethal viral

• Author : Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 14 February 2019

Modeling and Control of Infectious Diseases in the Host: With MATLAB and R provides a holistic understanding of health and disease by presenting topics on quantitative decision-making that influence the development of drugs. The book presents modeling advances in different viral infections, dissecting detailed contributions of key players, along with their respective interactions. By combining tailored in vivo experiments and mathematical modeling approaches, the book clarifies the relative contributions of different underlying mechanisms within hosts of the most lethal viral

• Author : Roy M. Anderson,Robert M. May
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 27 August 1992

This book deals with infectious diseases -- viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth -- in terms of the dynamics of their interaction with host populations. The book combines mathematical models with extensive use of epidemiological and other data. This analytic framework is highly useful for the evaluation of public health strategies aimed at controlling or eradicating particular infections. Such a framework is increasingly important in light of the widespread concern for primary health care programs aimed at such diseases as measles,

• Author : Tanvir Ferdousi
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 2023

Infectious disease modeling is used to examine pathogen transmission retrospectively and forecast outbreaks preemptively. Model results help public health authorities to optimize disease control measures, preventing catastrophic loss of lives in humans and animals. Yet, several fundamental challenges arise in infectious disease modeling. A critical problem involves modeling new and evolving pathogens for realistic simulations and reliable predictions of outcomes. Another concern is the lack of data related to infectious diseases. Epidemic modelers often face data inadequacy with host networks

• Author : Ottar N. Bjørnstad
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 30 October 2018

This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics. The book offers an easy to follow implementation and analysis of mathematical epidemiology. The book focuses on recent case studies in order to explore various conceptual, mathematical, and statistical issues. The dynamics of infectious diseases shows a wide diversity of pattern. Some have locally persistent chains-of-transmission, others persist spatially in ‘consumer-resource metapopulations’. Some infections are prevalent among the young, some among the old and some are age-invariant.

• Author : Khalid Hattaf,Hemen Dutta
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 30 July 2020

This book discusses significant research and study topics related to mathematical modelling and analysis of infectious diseases. It includes several models and modelling approaches with different aims, such as identifying and analysing causes of occurrence and re-occurrence, causes of spreading, treatments and control strategies. A valuable resource for researchers, students, educators, scientists, professionals and practitioners interested in gaining insights into various aspects of infectious diseases using mathematical modelling and mathematical analysis, the book will also appeal to general readers wanting

• Author : Rodrick Wallace,Luis Fernando Chaves,Luke R. Bergmann,Constância Ayres,Lenny Hogerwerf,Richard Kock,Robert G. Wallace
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 22 February 2018

The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity. By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks. Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity are being drastically streamlined by both agribusiness-led deforestation and deficits in public health and environmental sanitation. Consequently, a subset of infections that once burned

• Author : Matt J. Keeling,Pejman Rohani
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 19 September 2011

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a timely and comprehensive introduction to the modeling of infectious diseases in humans and animals, focusing on recent developments as well as more traditional approaches. Matt Keeling and Pejman Rohani move from modeling with simple differential equations to more recent, complex models, where spatial structure, seasonal "forcing," or stochasticity influence the dynamics, and where computer simulation needs to be

• Author : Dongmei Chen,Bernard Moulin,Jianhong Wu
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 31 December 2014

Features modern research and methodology on the spread of infectious diseases and showcases a broad range of multi-disciplinary and state-of-the-art techniques on geo-simulation, geo-visualization, remote sensing, metapopulation modeling, cloud computing, and pattern analysis Given the ongoing risk of infectious diseases worldwide, it is crucial to develop appropriate analysis methods, models, and tools to assess and predict the spread of disease and evaluate the risk. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases features mathematical and spatial modeling approaches

• Author : Maia Martcheva
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 20 October 2015

The book is a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to the mathematical modeling and analysis of infectious diseases. It includes model building, fitting to data, local and global analysis techniques. Various types of deterministic dynamical models are considered: ordinary differential equation models, delay-differential equation models, difference equation models, age-structured PDE models and diffusion models. It includes various techniques for the computation of the basic reproduction number as well as approaches to the epidemiological interpretation of the reproduction number. MATLAB code is included

• Author : Priti Kumar Roy
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 15 December 2015

The book discusses different therapeutic approaches based on different mathematical models to control the HIV/AIDS disease transmission. It uses clinical data, collected from different cited sources, to formulate the deterministic as well as stochastic mathematical models of HIV/AIDS. It provides complementary approaches, from deterministic and stochastic points of view, to optimal control strategy with perfect drug adherence and also tries to seek viewpoints of the same issue from different angles with various mathematical models to computer simulations. The

• Author : Gheyath Khaled Nasrallah,Layla Kamareddine,Buket Baddal
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 30 December 2021

• Author : Liza Cragg,Will Nutland,James Rudge
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
• Release : 23 September 2018

Understanding Public Health is an innovative series published by Open University Press in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where it is used as a key learning resource for postgraduate programmes. It provides self-directed learning covering the major issues in public health affecting low-, middle- and high-income countries. Communicable diseases are ever present in the world today. Social and economic issues like poverty, access to essential vaccinations and lack of substantive healthcare systems contribute to mortality rates

• Author : Barbara Hernandez
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release : 24 August 2011

Health promotion and education is an emerging and growing field. Foundation Concepts of Global Community Health Promotion and Education examines the underlying concepts appropriate in any global community health promotion and education course. It investigates the history, terminology, philosophy, theory, ethics, programs, resources and settings for the practice of community health education and promotion.The text also explores professional competencies and preparation, standards, models, theories, careers, technology and the role of professional associations and organizations within community health. The roles

• Author : R H van den Berg
• Publisher : Balboa Press
• Release : 23 December 2014

Although communicable infections have been known to man since the dawn of time, outbreaks of communicable infections still occur regularly. Known and unknown communicable infections continue to emerge and re-emerge due to factors such as drug-resistant microbes, the over-use of antimicrobial drugs, and many others. Many changes in society have weakened healthcare systems while enhancing the effects of poverty and malnutrition. Although the mortality rate has declined over the last 150 years, communicable diseases remain the biggest killer worldwide, increasing at