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Author London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Public Health Forum (7th : 1997)

Title New and resurgent infections : prediction, detection, and management of tomorrow's epidemics / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Seventh Annual Public Health Forum ; edited by Brian Greenwood and Kevin De Cock
Published Chichester ; New York : J. Wiley & Sons, [1998]
©1998

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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.
Epidemiology -- Congresses.
Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology.
Communicable Disease Control.
Drug Resistance.
Communicable Disease Control.
Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology.
Drug Resistance.
Genre/Form Congress.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Author De Cock, Kevin.
Greenwood, B. M.
LC no. 97046506
ISBN 0471981745 (hardcover)
Other Titles New & resurgent infections