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By K. E. Nelson, C. Williams, and N. Graham.
2nd ed, 1027 pp, $127.95.
Sudbury, MA, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2007.
ISBN-13 978-0-7637-2879-3.

JAMA. 2008;299(4):459.

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Infectious diseases are directly responsible for approximately 1 in 4 deaths globally.¹ Most of these deaths occur early in life and are preventable. Prevention requires appropriate technology—eg, vaccines, latrines, bed nets, the media—along with personal and political commitment. Infectious disease epidemiology supports prevention by providing a fundamental understanding of how infections spread, identifying effective control measures, and collecting and interpreting disease surveillance data. It is a multidisciplinary subject, bringing together medical doctors, statisticians, biologists, mathematicians, and economists. The challenge for these professionals is to assimilate the information from each discipline that is necessary for a full and productive understanding of this rapidly evolving field. The second edition of Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice, edited by Nelson, Williams, and Graham, is an attempt to provide such an understanding and is based on a course offered at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. This great paving-slab of a book, at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Nicholas C. Grassly, DPhil, Reviewer
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Imperial College London
London, England
n.grassly@imperial.ac.uk

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