Mapping disease transmission risk : enriching models using biogeography and ecology / A. Townsend Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, A. Townsend (Andrew Townsend), 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical mapping.

Medical geography.

Public health surveillance.

Epidemiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Ecology and Biogeography""; ""This Book""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part I: Distributional Ecology""; ""2 General Conceptual Framework for Species� Distributions""; ""Historical Background""; ""A General Schema of Distributional Ecology""; ""Disease Systems""; ""Conclusions""; ""3 Status of Data for Understanding Disease Distributions""; ""Disease Case-Occurrence Data Sets""; ""Relevant Biodiversity Occurrence Data Sets""; ""Georeferencing""; ""The Meaning of No Records""; ""Conclusions""

""4 Current Tools for Understanding Disease Distributions""""The Current Toolkit""; ""Shortcomings of the Current Methodologies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part II: Disease Modeling Basics""; ""5 Modifications to the Basic Framework""; ""Disease Peculiarities""; ""Real-World Examples: West Nile Virus and Others""; ""Implications for Disease Modeling""; ""Conclusions""; ""6 Modeling Components versus Outcomes""; ""Disease Transmission Systems as Sets of Interacting Species""; ""Black-Box Approaches""; ""Component-Based Approaches""; ""Combined Approaches""; ""Conclusions""

""7 Space-Only versus Space-and-Environment Models""""Examples and Illustrations""; ""Contrasting the Two Types of Models""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part III: Preparing the Data""; ""8 Garbage-In-Garbage-Out Principle""; ""Problems with Data Quality""; ""Biases Created by Geography""; ""Conclusions""; ""9 Assembling Occurrence Data""; ""General Considerations""; ""Obtaining and Improving Occurrence Data""; ""Compatibility and Study Design""; ""Conclusions""; ""10 Assembling Environmental Data""; ""Relevance to Species� Distributions""; ""General Considerations""

""Modifiable Areal Unit Problem""""Specific Data Resources""; ""Conclusions""; ""11 Study Areas and BAM""; ""Defining the Area M""; ""Sampling Considerations""; ""BAM Configurations""; ""Details of M and A for Model Transfers""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part IV: Developing Models""; ""12 Calibrating Niche Models""; ""Introduction to Niche Models""; ""Nuts and Bolts""; ""Calibrating the “Best� Model""; ""Transferring and Extrapolating""; ""Characterizing Ecological Niches""; ""Conclusions""; ""13 Processing Raw Outputs into Useful Maps""; ""Choosing Appropriate Thresholds""

""From Potential to Actual Distributions""""Projecting and Transferring Models""; ""Conclusions""; ""14 Evaluating Niche Models""; ""Controversies and Inappropriate Approaches""; ""Basic Concepts""; ""The Confusion Matrix and Its Implications""; ""Binary Model Evaluation""; ""Continuous Model Evaluation""; ""Model Evaluation and Model Performance""; ""Conclusions""; ""15 Developing Risk Maps""; ""Initial Estimates""; ""Risk Modifiers""; ""Type I versus Type II Errors""; ""Overlay, Testing, and Simulation""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part V: Examples of Applications""; ""16 Identifying Risk Factors""

""Black-Box Disease Ecology""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-1474-0

OCLC:

897858282