Ann Marie Kimball

Risky Trade (eBook, ePUB)

Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the risks of epidemic disease posed by the modern era of accelerated global trade. Conversely, it also addresses some of the potential benefits the same globalization can bring to epidemic control through surveillance, diagnostics, treatment, and investigation. The empirical approach ties together existing descriptions and case studies of epidemics building a comprehensive framework for examining new events and considering historical experience with infectious outbreaks. Thus the work helps demythologize some of the scare stories associated with global trade such as nvCJD and puts them into their proper scientific context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317062554
• Artikelnr.: 44876128

Autorenporträt

Dr Kimball is Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and Director of the APEC Asia Pacific Emerging Infections Network. She is an Adjunct Professor in Medicine with the School of Medicine and she is an attending Physician on staff at Harborview Medical Center. Her research interests are in emerging infections and global epidemic, prevention, surveillance, investigation and control of infectious diseases. In 2000 she was named as a New Century Scholar for Fulbright, and in 2004 she received a Guggenheim Foundation scholar award for her work. She has worked extensively in the areas of trade policy and disease control, and telecommunications and disease surveillance and alert systems. Formerly Dr Kimball served as Regional Advisor, and Head of National Program Support for HIV/AIDS with the Pan American Health Organization (WHO). She has also served as Director of the Washington State HIV/AIDS/STD Program with the State Department of Health, and as Chair of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Global Express
Chapter 2 Elusive Enterics
Chapter 3 New Agents with Speed
Chapter 4 Stealth Agents - Slow and Deadly
Chapter 5 The Global Express and Intentional Harm
Chapter 6 Primary Prevention
Chapter 7 Technical Armor
Chapter 8 Preventing Global Outbreaks
Chapter 9 The Future of the Global Express: Promise or Peril for People?