Population dynamics and infectious diseases in Asia [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Adrian C. Sleigh ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784988503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006
• ISBN: 1-281-92471-7; 9786611924713; 981-277-339-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (463 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SleighAdrian
• Disciplina: 614.095
• Soggetti: Communicable diseases - Asia; SARS (Disease) - Asia; Population biology - Asia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "... selected papers first presented at an international workshop entitled "Population dynamics and infectious diseases in Asia", held in Singapore in October 2004"--Preface.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Initially stimulated by a scholarly workshop convened in Singapore in late 2004, and written over the subsequent 18 months, this volume considers the potentially lethal pattern of infectious disease emergence in Asia. It studies linkages to changes in patterns of human activity, including but not limited to shifts in the distribution and concentration of human settlements and the patterns of movement within and between them. It explores the causes and consequences of infectious agents in the region historically and examines such newly emergent natural biological threats as SARS and avian