TitleThe changing face of disease [electronic resource] : implications for society / edited by N. Mascie-Taylor, J. Peters and S. McGarvey
Imprint Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2004
Connect tohttp://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9780203300183
Descript xvi, 208 p. : ill

CONTENT

Emerging disease in the third epidemiological transition -- Life history perspectives on human disease -- The Evolution, transmission and geographic spread of infectious diseases in human populations: questions and models -- Genetic epidemiology of parasitic diseases -- Urban pollution, disease and the health of children -- Protecting pregnant women from malaria -- Interdisciplinary research on Schistosoma japonicum -- Unravelling gene-environment interactions in type 2 diabetes -- Investigating the "hidden" epidemic: sexual behaviour and representation of HIV/AIDS amongst business people and medical personnel in five Central and Eastern European nations -- The Evolution of disease and the devolution of health care for American Indians -- The Public's health: the changing role of public health -- Human behaviour and the changing pattern of disease


SUBJECT

  1. Epidemiology -- Congresses
  2. Social medicine -- Congresses
  3. Public health -- Congresses
  4. Medical anthropology -- Congresses
  5. Electronic books.