Modeling and Control of Infectious Diseases in the Host

• 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Zhilan Feng
• Publisher : World Scientific
• Release : 23 May 2022

Mathematical models can be very helpful to understand the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. This book presents examples of epidemiological models and modeling tools that can assist policymakers to assess and evaluate disease control strategies. Contents: Development and Analysis of Models for Infectious Diseases; Application of Models to Real Disease Data; User-Friendly Modeling Tools for Public Health Policymakers. Readership: Researchers in mathematical biology, mathematical modeling, infectious diseases and complex systems.

• Author : Tariq Halasa,Salome Dürr
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 18 January 2018

Mathematical models are useful tools to understand the epidemiology and agent-host interaction of diseases. They are developed and applied since over a century, but with increasing computer capacity, they become increasingly prominent as part of evidence based decision making. Mathematical models are frequently used to construct preparedness and contingency plans for highly contagious diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease. This allows proposing effective strategies to control the spread of the disease in case of an incursion, and avails useful tools to

• Author : Hansen, J.W (ed.),Brain D. Perry
• Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
• Release : 01 January 1994

• Author : Priti Kumar Roy
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 08 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 : 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 : Md Mahbubul Huq Riad
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 May 2022

Infectious disease modeling is crucial to optimize surveillance, preventative measures, and resource allocation. Simulation with infectious disease models is very convenient when the resource requirement for data collection and experimental studies are prohibitively high or even unethical. A vast number of approaches have been proposed to model infectious disease transmission from different perspectives. In this dissertation, we investigate network-based disease models for efficient resource allocation, effective mitigation measures, and accurate risk assessment. We also investigate a filtering-based parameter estimation and

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

Health Sciences & Professions

• 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

• Author : Marilyn E. Scott,Gary Smith
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 May 1994

There are at least two populations involved in any infectious disease process: the population of parasites that cause the disease and the population of hosts that are infected. Parasitic and Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Ecology focuses on the interface between these two populations. The various chapters demonstrate how combined field, experimental, and theoretical studies aid in our understanding of the dynamics of infectious disease processes and in formulating control strategies. Moving from the basics of mathematical modeling and epidemiological principles

• Author : MARTIN AYONG AYIM
• Publisher : Author House
• Release : 09 December 2011

Get ready to explore the fascinating terrain of infectious diseases that includes The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (best seller on the Ebola outbreak), Strafford-Belmont Hotel in Philadelphia (Legionnaires disease outbreak), Jack-in the Box fast-food restaurants, Lyme Disease, Connecticut (tick-borne infection), Jim Hinson (famous puppeteer killed by streptococcal infection).