Clear-Cutting Disease Control

Uses mathematical models that make clear the role of land use patterns in the onset and spread of vector-borne disease

Provides a new class of 'regression equation like' statistical models that can be fitted to data

Applies control theory to vector-borne infection, making clear the central role that public policy plays in the onset and/or control of disease

Autorentext

Rodrick Wallace, Division of Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University

Luis Fernando Chaves, Department of Vector Ecology and Environment, Institute of Tropical Medicine at Nagasaki University

Luke Bergmann, Department of Geography, University of Washington

Constância Ayres, Vice-Director, Fiocruz, Brazil

Lenny Hogerwerf, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands

Richard Kock, Department of Pathology and Pathogen Biology, Royal Veterinary College, London

Robert G. Wallace, Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota

Inhalt

The Social Context of the Emergence of Vector-Borne Disease.- Modeling Vector-Borne Diseases in a Commoditized Landscape.- Modeling State Interventions.- Implications for Disease Intervention and Modeling.- Mathematical Appendix.- References.