Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Name: Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases
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ISBN: 9780123704665

ISBN-10: 0123704669

ISBN-13: 9780123704665

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kenneth H. Mayer, H. F. Pizer

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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,…

Book details

List price: $109.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 12/20/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.17" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.134



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