The social ecology of infectious diseases
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The social ecology of infectious diseases
Elsevier Academic Press, 2008
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table 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
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