Modeling to inform infectious disease control. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Niels G. Becker.
• Authors: Becker, Niels G, 1942-
• Contents: Introduction; Motivation; Terminology; Scope and layout of the book Minor outbreaks when infectives are homogeneous ; When are outbreaks certain to be minor?; Preventing epidemics by mass immunization; Reproduction number; What is a minor outbreak?; Probability of a minor outbreak; Importation of the infectious disease; Estimating R Minor outbreaks in a community of households ; Modified allocation of offspring; Household reproduction number; When are outbreaks certain to be minor?; Mass immunization; Are results affected by the way the infection is imported?; Estimating RH Minor outbreaks when individuals differ ; Type-specific offspring distributions; When are outbreaks certain to be minor?; Mass immunization; Types of individual in a community of households; Two reproduction numbers for a community of households Transmission intensity function ; Describing transmission intensity by a function; Estimating the transmission intensity function; Role of the transmission intensity function in modeling Partially effective vaccines ; Vaccine effect on transmission between individuals; Impact of mass immunization on the reproduction number; Estimating vaccine effects Social distancing ; What is social distancing?; Reduced mixing; Isolating symptomatic infectives; Targeting high transmission intensities Reducing epidemic size ; Simulated epidemics; The nature of our deterministic epidemic model; Epidemic size in a homogeneous community; Mass immunization; Herd immunity; Estimating the reproduction number; Types of individual Dynamics of infection incidence ; The epidemic curve; Estimating parameter values from daily incidence data; Endemic transmission Using data to inform model choice ; Model-free comparison of data on outbreak size; Transmission among homogeneous individuals; Allowing transmission rates to differ between individuals Terminology and notation References Subject index Discussion, Exercises, Supplementary material, and Bibliographic notes appear at the end of each chapter.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 614.40727; Epidemiology -- Statistical methods; Epidemiology -- Mathematical models
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498731072
• Related ISBNs: 9781498731065
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