Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning And Epidemic Modelling The Case Of Black Death

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death written by George Christakos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary reference takes the reader through all four major phases of interdisciplinary inquiry: adequate conceptualization, rigorous formulation, substantive interpretation, and innovative implementation. The text introduces a novel synthetic paradigm of public health reasoning and epidemic modelling, and implements it with a study of the infamous 14th century AD Black Death disaster that killed at least one-fourth of the European population.