E-book
Population dynamics and infectious diseases in Asia
Record details
- ISBN: 9812773398 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9789812773395 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9812568336
- ISBN: 9789812568335
- ISBN: 9789812773395
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1 online resource (xviii, 443 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | " ... selected papers first presented at an international workshop entitled "Population dynamics and infectious diseases in Asia", held in Singapore in October 2004"--Pref. Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Transdisciplinary Approaches to Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia -- FRAMEWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING POPULATION DYNAMICS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN ASIA -- 2. Ecological and Social Influences on Emergence and Resurgence of Infectious Diseases -- 3. Landscape Epidemiology and Migration: Insights and Problems at Several Scales for Transmissible Diseases -- 4. Water Dams and Infection: Asian Challenges -- 5. The Impact of Imported Infection -- 6. Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions in Asia: Comparative Health Policies for Emerging Infectious Diseases -- DEVELOPMENT AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN ASIA -- 7. Control of Infectious Diseases and Rising Life Expectancy in Shanghai: 1950-2003 -- 8. Social Change and Infectious Diseases in Northern Mountain Vietnam -- 9. NGOs and the Re-Organisation of "Community Development" in Northern Thailand: Mediating the Flows of People Living with HIV and AIDS -- 10. HIV/AIDS in Singapore: State Policies Social Norms and Civil Society Action -- POPULATION MOBILITY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN ASIA -- 11. Cultivating the Market: Mobility Labour and Sexual Exchange in Northwest Laos -- 12. Household Poverty Off-farm Migration and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Rural Henan China -- 13. Migration Gender and STD Risk: A Case Study of Female Temporary Migrants in Southwestern China -- 14. The Hajj Pilgrimage: Public Health Consequences of the Largest People Mass Movement -- COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON SARS IN ASIA -- 15. Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Singapore with Special Reference to SARS -- 16. Probable Roles of Bio-Aerosol Dispersion in the SARS Outbreak in Amoy Gardens Hong Kong -- 17. Discourse of "Othering" During the SARS Outbreak in Taiwan: A News Analysis -- 18. Risk Perception and Coping Responses in a SARS Outbreak in Malaysia -- 19. A Defining Moment Defining a Moment: Making SARS History in Singapore -- 20. SARS and China's Rural Migrant Labour: Roots of a Governance Crisis -- DRAWING LESSONS FROM THE PAST TO RESPOND TO FUTURE CHALLENGES -- 21. Avian Flu: One More Infection Challenge from Asia -- Index. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Conference proceedings. |
