Global public health vigilance : creating a world on alert /

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 disease outbreaks that ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weir, Lorna, 1952-
Otros Autores: Mykhalovskiy, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2010.
Colección:Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; 10.
Temas:
World health.
Epidemics.
Pandemics.
Global Health
Disease Outbreaks
Epidemics
Pandemics
Santé mondiale.
Pandémies.
Épidémies.
epidemics.
pandemics.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
World health
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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