Monitoring the health of populations : statistical principles and methods for public health surveillance /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brookmeyer, Ron, Stroup, Donna F., 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Public health surveillance in action : a framework
  • The use of surveys in public health surveillance : monitoring high-risk populations
  • Exploring temporal and spatial patterns in public health surveillance data
  • Temporal factors in public health surveillance : sorting out age, period, and cohort effects
  • Temporal factors in epidemics : the role of the incubation period
  • Using public health data to evaluate screening programs : application to prostate cancer
  • Detecting disease clustering in time or space
  • Outbreak detection : application to infectious disease surveillance
  • On-line monitoring of public health surveillance data
  • Bayesian hierarchical modeling of public health surveillance data : a case study of air pollution and mortality
  • Some considerations in spatial-temporal analysis of public health surveillance data
  • Ecologic inference problems in the analysis of surveillance data
  • Completeness of reporting : capture-recapture methods in public health surveillance