Knowing global public health -- Emerging infectious diseases : an active concept -- Early warning outbreak detection and alert : a technique -- From infectious disease to public health emergency -- A world on alert : emergency vigilance in global biopolitics -- Concluding.
Describes and analyzes the transformations in global mechanisms for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks that have occurred since the mid-1990s. This book examines early warning outbreak detection, which operates electronically through the Internet to identify infectious dise…
This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime.
In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money. In this volume each problem is introduced by a world expert defining the scale of the problem and describing the costs and benefits of a range of policy options to …