几乎每天都有关于传染病威胁的新闻头条。目前，a | H1N1流感大流行的幽灵正在抬头，关于为年轻女孩接种人乳头瘤病毒疫苗的利弊正在进行激烈辩论。为了对传染病话题进行循证和负责任的沟通，避免公众的误解和过度反应，我们需要扎实的科学知识，以及对传染病及其控制的各个方面的理解。
我们这本书的目的是向读者介绍这门学科的概貌和主要思想。这本书向读者介绍了流行病学的方法学方面，这些方法学方面是针对传染病的，并提供了对以其主要传播方式为特征的某些传染病类别的流行病学的见解。这一主题的选择弥合了传染病临床、生物学、数学、社会和经济方面的科学研究与其在公共卫生中的应用之间的差距。
这本书将帮助读者了解传染病对现代社会的影响，以及决策者应对这些挑战的手段。它是为健康科学专业的学生编写的，包括治疗医学和公共卫生专业的学生，以及活跃在这些领域和相关领域的专家。由于技术水平相对较低，受过教育的外行可能会对它感兴趣。
作者是传染病流行病学领域的国际知名专家。这些编辑来自不同的科学背景，但多年来一直致力于传染病流行病学的研究。Alexander Krämer是一名内科医生和流行病学家，他在比勒菲尔德大学共同创建了欧洲德语区第一所公共卫生学院。Mirjam Kretzschmar是一位数学家和流行病学家，对传染病的数学建模及其在公共卫生中的应用做出了许多贡献。克劳斯·克里克伯格是一位数学家，拥有发展中国家卫生信息系统的背景。
Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models, and Public Health
Hardly a day goes by without news headlines concerning infectious disease threats. Currently the spectre of a pandemic of influenza A|H1N1 is raising its head, and heated debates are taking place about the pro’s and con’s of vaccinating young girls against human papilloma virus. For an evidence-based and responsible communication of infectious disease topics to avoid misunderstandings and overreaction of the public, we need solid scientific knowledge and an understanding of all aspects of infectious diseases and their control.
The aim of our book is to present the reader with the general picture and the main ideas of the subject. The book introduces the reader to methodological aspects of epidemiology that are specific for infectious diseases and provides insight into the epidemiology of some classes of infectious diseases characterized by their main modes of transmission. This choice of topics bridges the gap between scientific research on the clinical, biological, mathematical, social and economic aspects of infectious diseases and their applications in public health.
The book will help the reader to understand the impact of infectious diseases on modern society and the instruments that policy makers have at their disposal to deal with these challenges. It is written for students of the health sciences, both of curative medicine and public health, and for experts that are active in these and related domains, and it may be of interest for the educated layman since the technical level is kept relatively low.
The authors are internationally renowned experts in the field of infectious disease epidemiology. The editors come from different scientific backgrounds but have been devoted to research in infectious disease epidemiology for many years. Alexander Krämer is an internist and epidemiologist who co-founded the first School of Public Health in the German-speaking region of Europe at the University of Bielefeld. Mirjam Kretzschmar is a mathematician and epidemiologist with many contributions to mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and its applications for public health. Klaus Krickeberg is a mathematician with background in health information systems in developing countries.
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