Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of geographic variations in disease with
respect to demographic, environmental, behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic, and infectious …

Outbreaks of epidemics account for a great number of deaths. Communicable or infectious
diseases are also a major cause of mortality in the aftermath of natural or man-made …

Background The ability to detect disease outbreaks early is important in order to minimize
morbidity and mortality through timely implementation of disease prevention and control …

In disease surveillance, there are often many different data sets or data groupings for which
we wish to do surveillance. If each data set is analysed separately rather than combined, the …

Background Early detection of disease outbreaks enables public health officials to
implement disease control and prevention measures at the earliest possible time. A time …

This volume hopes to fill a growing need for the description of current methodology in public
health surveillance. Recent advances in syndromic surveillance and, more generally, in …

This book is intended to provide a text on statistical methods for detecting clus ters and/or
clustering of health events that is of interest to? nal year undergraduate and graduate level …

This article presents a notional scheme of global surveillance and response to infectious
disease outbreaks and reviews 14 international surveillance and response programs. In …

Objectives. Patient data that includes precise locations can reveal patients' identities,
whereas data aggregated into administrative regions may preserve privacy and …

Background Utilizing highly precise spatial resolutions within disease outbreak detection,
such as the patients' address, is most desirable as this provides the actual residential …