xvi, 370 pages : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Public health surveillance in action : a framework / Donna F. Stroup, Ron Brookmeyer, and William D. Kalsbeek -- The use of surveys in public health surveillance : monitoring high-risk populations / William D. Kalsbeek -- Exploring temporal and spatial patterns in public health surveillance data / Owen Devine -- Temporal factors in public health surveillance : sorting out age, period, and cohort effects / Theodore R. Holford -- Temporal factors in epidemics : the role of the incubation period / Ron Brookmeyer -- Using public health data to evaluate screening programs : application to prostate cancer / Ruth Etzioni, Larry Kessler, and Dante di Tommaso -- Detecting disease clustering in time or space / Lance A. Waller -- Outbreak detection : application to infectious disease surveillance / Paddy Farrington and Nick Andrews -- On-line monitoring of public health surveillance data / Peter Diggle [and others] -- Bayesian hierarchical modeling of public health surveillance data : a case study of air pollution and mortality / Scott L. Zeger [and others] -- Some considerations in spatial-temporal analysis of public health surveillance data / Andrew B. Lawson -- Ecologic inference problems in the analysis of surveillance data / Sander Greenland -- Completeness of reporting : capture-recapture methods in public health surveillance / Ernest B. Hook and Ronald R. Regal

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