Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death

by George Christakos, Ricardo A. Olea, Marc L. Serre, Hwa-Lung Yu, Lin-Lin Wang

Overview

This multidisciplinary reference takes the reader through all four major phases of interdisciplinary inquiry: adequate conceptualization, rigorous formulation, substantive interpretation, and innovative implementation. The text introduces a novel synthetic paradigm of public health reasoning and epidemic modelling, and implements it with a study of the infamous 14^th century AD Black Death disaster that killed at least one-fourth of the European population.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540257943
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	08/22/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Toward an Interdisciplinary Methodology.- Shastic Modelling.- Black Death: The Background.- Mathematical Formulation of the Knowledge Bases.- Spatiotemporal Mapping of the Epidemic.- Epea Pteroenta.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"This book is the result of a collegial effort to develop a new interdisciplinary research paradigm in public health … . this is a message for the mass that has been packaged for the elite. Regardless of their mathematical level, all readers will however appreciate the tremendous work that went into the collection and fascinating interpretation of historical data on Black Death." (Pierre Goovaerts, Computers Geosciences, Vol. 33, 2007)

"The authors’ overall theme is that generating accurate and useful … mathematical models of disease epidemiology and the impact of interventions requires a true interdisciplinary approach. … Readers interested in the background data related to the epidemiology of the Black Death will probably enjoy perusing the detailed, annotated data appendices. This would be a fine addition to a technical library as a resource for persons who conduct sophisticated mathematical modeling." (Martin I. Meltzer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January, 2006)

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