Infectious disease movement in a borderless world : workshop summary

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"Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plants, and the pathogens they carry, to travel more easily than ever before. The ease and speed of travel, tourism, and international trade connect once-remote areas with one another, eliminating many of the geographic and cultural barriers th...

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Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats
Other Authors: Relman, David A., Choffnes, Eileen R., Mack, Alison
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2010
Series:Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases > Congresses.
Communicable diseases > Epidemiology > Congresses.
Communicable diseases > Transmission > Congresses.
Emerging infectious diseases.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > epidemiology
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Migration, mobility, and health. International migration past, present, and future / Mark J. Miller
  • People, borders, and disease
  • health disparities in a mobile world / Brian D. Gushulak and Douglas W. MacPherson
  • 2. Travel, conflict, trade, and disease. Global travel and emerging infections / Mary E. Wilson
  • Armed conflict and infectious disease / Barry S. Levy
  • Risky trade and emerging infections / Ann Marie Kimball and Jull Hodges
  • Globalization of the food supply: time for change in approach / David W.K. Acheson
  • 3. Mobile animals and disease. Public health impact of global trade in animals / Nina N. Marano [and others]
  • A mollusc on the leg of a beetle: human activities and the global dispersal of vectors and vector-borne pathogens / Paul Reiter
  • Predicting and preventing emergent disease outbreaks / Andrew Dobson and Sarah Cleaveland.
  • 4. Global public health governance and the revised international health regulations. Public health, global governance, and the revised international health regulations / David Heymann
  • Capacity-building under the international health regulations to address public health emergencies of international concern / May C. Chu, Guenael Rodier, and David Heymann
  • Implementing the revised international health regulations in resource-constrained countries: intentional and unintentional realities / Oyewale Tomori
  • Viral sovereignty, global governance, and the IHR 2005: the H5N1 virus sharing controversy and its implications for global health governance / David P. Fidler
  • 5. Global disease surveillance and response. Of milk, health, and trade security / David M. Bell
  • International technical agencies working at the human-animal interface / Ottorino Cosivi
  • International animal health regulations and the world animal health information system / Alejandro B. Thiermann
  • Incentives and disincentives to timely disease reporting and response: lessons from the influenza campaign / David Nabarro.

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