Hardly a day goes by without news headlines concerning infectious disease threats. This book will help the reader to understand the impact of infectious diseases on our society and the instruments that policy makers have at their disposal to deal with them.

Expanded version in English of the book in German on a slightly higher level: A. Krämer, R. Reintjes (eds.): Infektionsepidemiologie. Springer, 2003 The subject is modern epidemiologic methods for infectious diseases, their origins and motivations, and their role and applications in public health Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
I Challenges.- The Global Burden of Infectious Diseases.- Global Challenges of Infectious Disease Epidemiology.- EmergingEmerging infectious diseases and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases.- Infectious Disease Control Policies and the Role of Governmental and Intergovernmental Organisations.- II General concepts and methods.- Principles of Infectious Disease Epidemiology.- Social Risk Factors.- Molecular Typing and Clustering Analysis as a Tool for Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.- Epidemiologic Surveillance.- Outbreak Investigations.- Geographic Information Systems.- Methods and Concepts of Epidemiology.- Mathematical Models in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.- Immunity to Infectious Diseases.- Principles and Practice of Vaccinology.- Health Economics of Infectious Diseases.- III Epidemiology of particular infectious diseases.- Airborne Transmission: Influenza and Tuberculosis.- Infectious Childhood Diarrhea in Developing Countries.- Bloodborne and Sexual Transmission: HIV/AIDS.- Blood Borne and Sexual Transmission: Hepatitis B and C.- Sexual Transmission: Chlamydia trachomatis.- Vector-Borne Transmission: Malaria, Dengue, and Yellow Fever.- Nosocomial Transmission: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).- Infectious Diseases and Cancer: HPV.