Description |
xvi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: The Influence of Local Changes in the Rise of Infectious Disease (D. Bradley & T. John). -- The Influence of Historical and Global Changes Upon the Patterns of Infectious Diseases (A. McMichael). -- Emerging Diseases and Global Change: Past, Present and Possible Futures (P. Epstein). -- Biological Variability in Viral Pathogens (A. McMichael). -- Drug Resistance: We May Not be Able to Go Back Again (B. Levin). -- Environmental Factors, the Immune System and the Susceptibility to Infection (L. Kestens & G. Vanham). -- Malaria: The Role of Agriculture in Changing the Epidemiology of Malaria (M. Gomes, et al.). -- Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever: Emerging or Not? (P. Rollin, et al.). -- Population Growth, Urbanization, Automobiles and Aeroplanes: the Dengue Connection (D. Gubler). -- BSE and CJD (P. Smith). -- Food Poisoning (S. Palmer). -- Co-ordination of International Responses to Epidemics (A. Moren & G. Mpigika). -- Economic Aspects of E.coli O157:H7--Disease Outcome Trees, Risk, Uncertainty and the Social Cost of Disease Estimates (T. Roberts, et al.). -- Reducing Uncertainty in Infectious Disease Control--The Role of Health Economics Research (S. Foster). -- The Public Health Response to Emerging Infectious Diseases: Are Current Approaches Adequate? (R. Berkelman). -- Emerging Diseases: A Global Response to a Global Challenge (L. Martinez & D. Heymann). -- Emerging Infectious Diseases: Setting the Research and Public Health Agenda (B. Greenwood). -- Index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Communicable diseases -- Congresses.
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Epidemiology -- Congresses.
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Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology.
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Communicable Disease Control.
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Drug Resistance.
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Communicable Disease Control.
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Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology.
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Drug Resistance.
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Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
De Cock, Kevin.
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Greenwood, B. M.
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LC no. |
97046506 |
ISBN |
0471981745 (hardcover) |
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