Download or read book Mapping Disease Transmission Risk written by A. Townsend Peterson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates new and more effective infectious disease mapping methods and integrates biogeographic and ecological factors with spatial models. The author treats disease transmission areas for what they are--distributions of species. He argues that complex, fragmented, and highly irregular disease patterns can only be understood when underlying environmental drivers are considered. The result is an modeling approach that challenges static spatial models and provides a framework for recasting disease mapping.