The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases
eBook - PDF

The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases

  1. 528 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases

About this book

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.- Provides essential understanding of current and future epidemics- Presents a crossover perspective for disciplines in the medical and social sciences and public policy, including public health, infectious diseases, population science, epidemiology, microbiology, food safety, defense preparedness and humanitarian relief- Creates a new perspective on ecology based on the interaction of microbes and human activities

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Yes, you can access The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases by Kenneth H. Mayer,H.F. Pizer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Infectious Diseases. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. The social ecology of infectious diseases
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedications
  5. Contents
  6. About the editors
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: What constitutes the social ecology of infectious diseases?
  11. Chapter 1 Travel
  12. Chapter 2 Changing sexual mores and disease transmission
  13. Chapter 3 The international drug epidemic
  14. Chapter 4 Urbanization and the social ecology of emerging infectious diseases
  15. Chapter 5 Suburbanization in developed nations
  16. Chapter 6 The social ecology of infectious disease transmission in day-care centers
  17. Chapter 7 Protecting blood safety
  18. Chapter 8 Food safety in the industrialized world
  19. Chapter 9 Antibiotic resistance and nosocomial infections
  20. Chapter 10 Vaccines and immunization
  21. Chapter 11 Infectious diseases in the context of war, civil strife and social dislocation
  22. Chapter 12 Bioterrorism
  23. Chapter 13 Infectious diseases associated with natural disasters
  24. Chapter 14 Climate change and infectious diseases
  25. Chapter 15 Governance, human rights and infectious disease: theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives
  26. Chapter 16 International organizational response to infectious disease epidemics
  27. Chapter 17 Principles of building the global health workforce
  28. Index