Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology

By: Andrew B. Lawson (Editor), Sudipto Banerjee (Editor), Robert P. Haining (Editor), Maria Dolores Ugarte (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 June 2020 | Edition Number 1

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Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology explains how to model epidemiological problems and improve inference about disease etiology from a geographical perspective. Top epidemiologists, geographers, and statisticians share interdisciplinary viewpoints on analyzing spatial data and space-time variations in disease incidences. These analyses can provide important information that leads to better decision making in public health.

The first part of the book addresses general issues related to epidemiology, GIS, environmental studies, clustering, and ecological analysis. The second part presents basic statistical methods used in spatial epidemiology, including fundamental likelihood principles, Bayesian methods, and testing and nonparametric approaches. With a focus on special methods, the third part describes geostatistical models, splines, quantile regression, focused clustering, mixtures, multivariate methods, and much more. The final part examines special problems and application areas, such as residential history analysis, segregation, health services research, health surveys, infectious disease, veterinary topics, and health surveillance and clustering.

Spatial epidemiology, also known as disease mapping, studies the geographical or spatial distribution of health outcomes. This handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of state-of-the-art approaches to determine the relationships between health and various risk factors, empowering researchers and policy makers to tackle public health problems.

Industry Reviews

"In 2008, CRC Press started publishing the Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods. Apparently the series is popular as it is growing rapidly, with 13 volumes printed now and 7 announced. It is easy to understand why: the books are attractive in content, presentation and price. The present volume is no exception. The book has been edited by first-class experts, who also contributed a number of chapters. The book's website gives a table of the contents of the 35 chapters. It documents the rich variety of subjects. ... I can only recommend this book."
-Paul Eilers, ISCB News, May 2017

"...this book provides an overview of the rich variety of spatial epidemiology methods and their application. For readers coming from general statistics, the attention paid to issues such as misalignment, ecological bias, and the interpretation of results will be particularly useful. In the years since the publication of this handbook, the field has continued to evolve...With these additions, this handbook stands as a valuable resource for researchers and professionals interested in solving new challenges in spatial epidemiology and public health surveillance."
- Paula Moraga, JASA, March 2021

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