...This chapter discusses various applications of ecological niche modeling in the study of the geography and ecology of disease transmission. Niche modeling approaches have many applications in the field of public health and epidemiology. Among the most common spatial epidemiological applications...

... based malaria therapy Global Malaria Control Strategy 1992 Lissouba Pascal malaria treatment medications People’s Republic of Congo Special Program for Research and Training on Tropical Diseases Walter Reed Army Institute of Research British Wellcome Trust Federal of Pharmaceutical...

... Wenzel “Worms Are Our Life” Geissler chronic diseases compliance cultural factors Gowon Yakubu New York Times Nigeria noncompliance Water Decade projects drinking water contamination Fassin Didier “International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade” 1980s World Health Assembly Bourne...

... with the history of empirical knowledge of the disease. That is to say, biochemistry and naval medicine never shared an inevitable and common destination, although there were many occasions when a coalition of the two was accidentally and briefly achieved. This chapter shows that it is difficult for anyone outside...

... of the Minerva Scoresby William Jr Forster Johann Reinhold Mollon John tritanopia Hodges William Latour Bruno Cowper William de Certeau Michel Longinus the sublime Lowth Robert Rime of the Ancient Mariner Smart Christopher situation scurvy disease homesickness Johannes Hofer Helmut Illbruck...

...This chapter analyzes the semantics of embodied difference over and against the reductive assimilation of difference to disease and disability. It discusses narrative medicine that invites attention to the ways in which early modern Jesuit fathers, Hospitaller sisters, Recollect brothers...

... core group infectious disease infectivity susceptibility dependence We start with an example. Assume that the latency period and the infectious period of all individuals are the same, but that their infectivities during the infectious period may differ. With reference to the situation and notation...

... construction order statistics central limit theorem final size partial vaccination critical vaccination coverage duration of an outbreak herd immunity mixing uniform mixing infectious disease stochastic epidemic model general epidemic Reed–Frost epidemic homogeneous community In this chapter we...

..., and will in the deterministic setting, take off only if R₀ > 1, a characteristic referred to as supercritical. In a community having births or immigration of susceptibles, this also means that the disease can become endemic. If the parameters and community are such that R₀ < 1 (or R₀ = 1), we are in the subcritical...

...This chapter elaborates on the special case of age structure. Especially in the context of infectious diseases among humans, “age” is often used to characterize individuals. Partly this reflects our system of public health administration (and, perhaps, our preoccupation with age). There is, however...

... immigration death process Kostizin model aggregation of parasites Anderson May approximation negative binomial distribution regulation by macroparasites variance to mean ratio microparasites infection infectious disease parasite load reproduction number parasite host larvae macroparasites As we...

...., infectious) individuals; and specify the probability that a contact between an infective and a susceptible actually leads to transmission. ainfectious disease sdisease transmission Exercise 13.1 By definition, R^₀ is a generation property: it gives, after...

..., referencing academic literature that coined the phrase “Dutch disease” (resource wealth may be lost by virtue of institutional incapacity and the adverse effects of unmanaged income flows through the domestic economy). It then turns to the issue of institutional innovation, noting that while a couple...

...This introductory chapter discusses the generation and transformation of expert knowledge and practices in connection with the phenomenon of Alzheimer disease (AD) in an era of increasing uncertainties and recognition of apparently boundless complexity. Emphasis is given to the way in which debates...

...This chapter focuses on the “discovery” of Alzheimer disease (AD) and a somewhat condensed genealogy of its history to the present time. Emphasis is given to the virtual disappearance of AD for over four decades after its initial identification, followed by its rediscovery in the late 1960s...

...This chapter considers repeated attempts at diagnostic refinement and standardization of Alzheimer disease (AD). It explores the difficulties of reconciling repeated mismatches between a clinical and a neuropathological diagnosis of AD, as are the discrepancies in diagnoses between specialized...

...This chapter turns to the global concern about aging societies, and the so-called epidemic of aging. It argues that a public health approach to aging and Alzheimer's will have a much greater effect in reducing the incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD) worldwide than will the technologically oriented...

...Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. This book presents an intellectual history of scurvy to tell the story...

.... The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects...

...Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia...