Overview
- Analyzes health equity in order to achieve good health and well-being for all, leaving nobody behind
- Provides applied mathematical models that pragmatically illustrate why, when, and how to act in order to avoid communicable and non-communicable diseases
- Discusses the often overlooked but important aspect of social determinants of health
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Burden of Disease, Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health
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Mathematical Modelling and Epidemiological Studies
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Abdesslam Boutayeb is Professor at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, Emirates Aviation University, Dubai. He has spent 20 years carrying out research in biomathematical modelling, burden of diseases, health equity and social determinants of health. He has published 75 articles, 6 books, 16 chapters in books and 10 conference papers. He has been a consultant with the World Health Organisation since 2011 and has written six reports for WHO.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Developing Countries
Editors: Abdesslam Boutayeb
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34702-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34701-7Published: 03 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34704-8Published: 03 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34702-4Published: 02 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 270
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Development and Health