Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health
Lawson, Andrew B. / Biggeri, Annibale / Böhning, Dankmar / Lesaffre, Emmanuel / Viel, Jean-Fran / Bertollini, Roberto
Offers an in-depth report on advanced statistical tools for public health disease surveillance, which is the result of a prestigious World Health Organisation (WHO) and EU Biomed programme initiative. Traditionally, the role of public health disease surveillance has been to identify and evaluate morbidity and mortality but increasingly, more sophisticated methods are being applied as the authorities extend their studies to include control and ...