Böcker av Board On Global Health

The Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control: Exploring the Consequences and Opportunities

Biomedical advances have made it possible to manipulate features of living organisms in useful ways. This book examines the trends and objectives of research in public health, life sciences, and biomedical science that contain applications relevant to developments in biological weapons and ways to anticipate, identify, and mitigate these dangers.

Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry Protecting the Public's Health (2005)

Calls for the federal government to create and fund the United States Global Health Service (GHS) to mobilize the nation's best health care professionals and other highly skilled experts to help combat HIV/AIDS in hard-hit African, Caribbean, and South-east Asian countries.

Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. This title covers the workshop on pandemic influenza.

This volume examines our understanding of the relationships among microbes, disease vectors and human hosts, and explores possible new strategies for meeting the challenge of resistance.

Offers an evaluation of the relative importance of zoonotic diseases against the overall backdrop of emerging infections. This book provides research findings related to the state of our understanding of zoonotic diseases; and surveillance and response strategies to detect, prevent, and mitigate the impact of zoonotic diseases on human health.

The adulteration and fraudulent manufacture of medicines is an old problem, vastly aggravated by modern manufacturing and trade. This title accepts the narrow meaning of counterfeit, and, because the nuances of trademark infringement must be dealt with by courts, case by case, the report does not discuss the problem of counterfeit medicines.

The US government supports programs to combat global HIV/AIDS through an initiative that is known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This title makes recommendations for improving the US government's bilateral programs as part of the US response to global HIV/AIDS.

"On April 28-29, 2011, the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened its second workshop to explore the social and economic costs of violence."--P. 1.