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Peterson A. Townsend (Andrew Townsend), <1964-> |
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Mapping disease transmission risk : enriching models using biogeography and ecology / / A. Townsend Peterson |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical mapping |
Medical geography |
Public health surveillance |
Epidemiology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Ecology and Biogeography""; ""This Book""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part I: Distributional Ecology""; ""2 General Conceptual Framework for Species� Distributions""; ""Historical Background""; ""A General Schema of Distributional Ecology""; ""Disease Systems""; ""Conclusions""; ""3 Status of Data for Understanding Disease Distributions""; ""Disease Case-Occurrence Data Sets""; ""Relevant Biodiversity Occurrence Data Sets""; ""Georeferencing""; ""The Meaning of No Records""; ""Conclusions"" |
""4 Current Tools for Understanding Disease Distributions""""The Current Toolkit""; ""Shortcomings of the Current Methodologies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part II: Disease Modeling Basics""; ""5 Modifications to the Basic Framework""; ""Disease Peculiarities""; ""Real-World Examples: West Nile Virus and Others""; ""Implications for Disease Modeling""; ""Conclusions""; ""6 Modeling Components versus Outcomes""; ""Disease Transmission Systems as Sets of Interacting Species""; ""Black-Box Approaches""; ""Component-Based Approaches""; ""Combined Approaches""; ""Conclusions"" |
""7 Space-Only versus Space-and-Environment Models""""Examples and Illustrations""; ""Contrasting the Two Types of Models""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part III: Preparing the Data""; ""8 Garbage-In- |
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