Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Zusammenfassung Infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. This book explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases.

List of 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

Product details

• Authors: K.h. Pizer Mayer
• Assisted by: Kenneth H. Mayer (Editor), Kenneth H. (Brown University Mayer (Editor), Mayer Kenneth H. (Editor), H. F. Pizer (Editor), H.F. Pizer (Editor), H.F. (Health Care Strategies Pizer (Editor), Pizer H.F. (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2007
• EAN: 9780123704665
• ISBN: 978-0-12-370466-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Health & safety issues, Health and safety in the workplace