Modeling the AIDS Epidemic: Planning, Policy, and Prediction - Hardcover

Kaplan, Edward H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0781701643 ISBN 13: 9780781701648

Publisher: Raven Pr, 1994

Synopsis

This outstanding volume presents the latest applied mathematical and statistical modeling research that can help focus and improve major decision-making in planning, resource allocation, and public health policy for the current AIDS health crisis. Thirty detailed chapters examine how mathematical and statistical tools are being successfully applied to many AIDS-related issues, including forecasting, evaluation of behavioral intervention programs, natural history and disease progression, clinical trials for treatment, field studies of incidence and prevalence of the disease, characterization of the disease transmission process, and evaluation of the societal costs and benefits of alternative policy decisions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Raven Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0781701643
• ISBN 13: 9780781701648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Brandeau Margaret L.