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Transforming Public Health Surveillance - E-Book
Public Health Surveillance (PHS) is of primary importance in this era of emerging health threats like Ebola, MERS-CoV, influenza, natural and man-made disasters, and non-communicable diseases. Transforming Public Health Surveillance is a forward-looking, topical, and up-to-date overview of the issues and solutions facing PHS. It describes the realities of the gaps and impediments to efficient and effective PHS, while presenting a vision for its possibilities and promises in the 21st century. The book gives a roadmap to the goal of public health information being available, when it is needed and where it is needed. Led by Professor Scott McNabb, a leader in the field, an international team of...
International Travel and Health
People made more than 800 million international journeys in 2006. This amount of global travel exposes many people to changes in altitude humidity disease agents and temperature - all of which can lead to ill-health. Many health risks can be minimized by precautions taken before during and after travel. This book explains how travellers can stay healthy and provides WHO guidance on vaccinations malaria chemoprophylaxis and treatment protection against insects and other disease vectors and safety in different environmental settings. This new edition provides information on all the main health risks to which travellers can be exposed during the journey and at the destination. The relevant infe...
Travel Medicine
* Unique and rare insights into the behind-the-scenes world of travel medicine including personal stories of both successes and failures from practitioners * Studies the development of Travel Medicine as a new discipline in response to the overwhelming interest in travel and its ramifications for health * Provides a history of the International Society of Travel Medicine
Covid-19 in Asia
This is a book for an extraordinary time, about a pandemic for which there is no modern precedent. It is an edited collection of original essays on Asia's legal and policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, which, in a matter of months, swept around the globe, infecting millions. It transformed daily life in almost every corner of the planet: lockdowns of cities and entire countries, physical distancing and quarantines, travel restrictions and border controls, movement-tracking technology, mandatory closures of all but essential services, economic devastation and mass unemployment, and government assistance programs on record-breaking scales. Yet a pandemic on this scale, under contemporary...
Geography × 10
This book gives examples of the use of geographical analysis in several real life projects. Each chapter describes a specific problem, the environment existing during its definition and the methodologies used to solve it. There is plenty of information to look for more techniques and a bibliography to supplement the knowledge of every method and situation. This is a unique piece of work relating theoretical concepts to their applications in private, government and research companies.
Defeating meningitis by 2030
The vision of the Defeating meningitis by 2030 global road map is “Towards a world free of meningitis” carried by three visionary goals: i) elimination of bacterial meningitis epidemics, ii) reduction of cases of vaccine-preventable bacterial meningitis by 50% and deaths by 70%, and iii) reduction of disability and improvement of quality of life after meningitis. The global road map, developed through iterative multidisciplinary consultations, paves the way to achieve this. It has been approved by the Seventy-Third World Health Assembly in November 2020.
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Viral hemorrhagic fevers have captured the imagination of the public and made their way into popular books and movies by virtue of their extreme virulence and mysterious origins. Since 2001, concerns have grown about the potential use of many hemorrhagic fever viruses as biological weapons. This has led to a resurgence in research to develop improv
TIME The Science of Epidemics
TIME’s The Science of Epidemics brings deeper understanding of Ebola and other infectious diseases from plague to polio. TIME takes readers behind the headlines not only to look at what caused Ebola to spread, but how doctors are trying to fight the disease in Africa, what the US and other countries are doing to stop it from spreading and the impact it has on survivors and society. TIME looks into the battle against other diseases as well, including the campaign in Saudi Arabia against MERS—Middle East Respiratory Syndrome—and what doctors and scientists are doing to end the AIDS epidemic. TIME explores the work of virus hunters in the field, report on the new Enterovirus D68 and the ever-present and mutating flu virus, explain how science won the fight against polio, and chronicle the deadliest viruses of all time. Filled with the behind-the-scenes reporting people expect from Time, as well as the publication’s magnificent photography and informative graphics, The Science of Epidemics is a book illuminates what medical researchers and doctors in the field are doing to save millions of lives from deadly diseases.
