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Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks - Saving Humanity from the Next Plague (Paperback)
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Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks - Saving Humanity from the Next Plague (Paperback)
Series: ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society
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With COVID-19 sweeping across the globe with near impunity, it is
thwarting governments and health organizations efforts to contain
it. Not since the 1918 Spanish Flu have citizens of developed
countries experienced such a large-scale disease outbreak that is
having devastating health and economic impacts. One reason such
outbreaks are not more common has been the success of the public
health community, including epidemiologists and biostatisticians,
in identifying and then mitigating or eliminating the outbreaks.
Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks:
Saving Humanity from the Next Plague is the story of the
application of statistics for disease detection and tracking. The
work of public health officials often crucially depends on
statistical methods to help discern whether an outbreak may be
occurring and, if there is sufficient evidence of an outbreak, then
to locate and track it. Statisticians also help collect critical
information, and they analyze the resulting data to help
investigators zero in on a cause for a disease. With the recent
outbreaks of diseases such as swine and bird flu, Ebola, and now
COVID-19, the role that epidemiologists and biostatisticians play
is more important than ever. Features: * Discusses the crucial
roles of statistics in early disease detection. * Outlines the
concepts and methods of disease surveillance. * Covers surveillance
techniques for communicable diseases like Zika and chronic diseases
such as cancer. * Gives real world examples of disease
investigations including smallpox, syphilis, anthrax, yellow fever,
and microcephaly (and its relationship to the Zika virus). Via the
process of identifying an outbreak, finding its cause, and
developing a plan to prevent its reoccurrence, this book tells the
story of how medical and public health professionals use statistics
to help mitigate the effects of disease. This book will help
readers understand how statisticians and epidemiologists help
combat the spread of such diseases in order to improve public
health across the world.
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