Infectious Disease Epidemiology: A Comprehensive Introduction

By Eyal Oren PhD MS, Heidi E. Brown PhD MPH

This foundational textbook, Infectious Disease Epidemiology: An Introduction, provides a comprehensive public health strategy for understanding and managing the spread of infectious diseases. It offers an integrated approach that covers the important methods underlying the discipline of infectious disease epidemiology, while also illustrating key social and environmental factors critical for understanding disease spread and its effect on population health.

A Unique and Integrated Approach

The book is divided into four parts, covering the entire scope of infectious disease origin, spread, and management. It breaks down factors leading to disease emergence and modes of transmission, the social, behavioral, cultural, and environmental dimensions that contribute to communicable spread and severity, as well as the tools used for disease detection, surveillance, control, and eradication.

Students will benefit from the latest knowledge and technologies in the field, including specific coverage on the role of big data and digital disease detection, the impact and challenges of vaccines, and much more.

Engaging and Interactive Learning

Core epidemiologic principles are explored through rich real-world examples, utilizing a combination of case studies, popular media examples, and didactic exercises. Each chapter has an engaging narrative and includes key terms and definitions, insightful vignettes, visually compelling illustrations, thought questions, and discussion questions to foster critical thinking and spark further investigation.

An Essential Resource for Public Health Professionals

Infectious Disease Epidemiology: An Introduction is an essential resource for students of public health and other health professionals in developing a nuanced and comprehensive understanding of this growing and dynamic field.

Key Features

• Provides students with an integrated approach illustrating important epidemiologic methods and tools in the context of current and historic real-world examples
• Uses multidisciplinary approaches to contextualize broader socio-behavioral factors and disparities in infectious disease
• Illustrates how novel methodological and technological advances support progress in infectious disease epidemiology
• Poses engaging discussion questions in each chapter that help guide in-class discussions and group work

ISBN-10: 0826156738, ISBN-13: 978-0826156730, 350 pages, English, Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 1st edition (December 28, 2022)