Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague

by Steven E. Rigdon and Ronald D. Fricker Jr.

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138742341
• ISBN13: 9781138742345
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"