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| THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Edited By
Kenneth Mayer, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
H.F. Pizer, Health Care Strategies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Description
Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating
favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third
of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior can produce epidemics
is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are determined by human behaviors.
In this book, forty experts in the fields of infectious diseases, the life sciences and public health explore how demography, geography,
migration, travel, environmental change, natural disaster, sexual behavior, drug use, food production and distribution, medical technology,
training and preparedness, as well as governance, human conflict and social dislocation influence current and likely future epidemics.
Audience
Public Health faculty & students; Physicians and educators in infectious diseases, pediatrics, internal medicine, emergency medicine and first responders, genitourinary medicine (STDs)
Contents
Travel
Changing Sexual Mores and Disease Transmission
The International Drug Epidemic
Urbanization and the Social Ecology of Emerging
Infectious Diseases
Suburbanization In Developed Nations
The Social Ecology of Infectious Disease Transmission in Day Care Centers
Protecting
Blood Safety
Food Safety in the Industrialized World
Antibiotic Resistance and Nosocomial Infections
Vaccines and Immunization
Infectious
Diseases in the Context of War, Civil Strife and Social Dislocation
Bioterrorism
Infectious Diseases Associated with Natural Disasters
(working title)
Climate Change And Infectious Diseases
Governance, Human Rights and Infectious Disease: Theoretical, Empirical and Practical
Perspectives
International Organizational Response to Infectious Disease Epidemics
Principles of Building the Global Health Workforce
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 528 pages, publication date: DEC-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370466-5
ISBN-10: 0-12-370466-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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