The causes and impacts of neglected tropical and zoonotic diseases
Subtitle: opportunities for integrated intervention strategies: workshop summary
By: Eileen R. Choffnes and David A. Relman, rapporteurs ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Global Health
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9780309186346
Subjects: Tropical medicine; Congresses; Zoonoses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Workshop overview; title: Contributed manuscripts; title: Regional approaches to neglected tropical diseases control in Latin America and the Caribbean / Steven Kenyon Ault and Mirta Roses Periago; title: Neglected tropical diseases, conflict, and the right to health / Chris Beyrer, Sonal Singh, and Darshan Sudarshi; title: Parasite Prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability / Christopher Eppig, Corey L. Fincher, and Randy Thornhill; title: The Neglected tropical diseases: current status of control and the U.K. contribution / Alan Fenwick; title: Integrated implementation of programs targeting neglected tropical diseases through preventive chemotherapy: proving the feasibility at national-scale / Mary Linehan et al.; title: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) slated for elimination and eradication / Donald R. Hopkins; title: The neglected tropical diseases and the neglected infections of poverty: overview of their common features, global disease burden and distribution, new control tools, and prospects for disease elimination / Peter J. Hotez; title: Neglected infections of poverty in the United States of America / Peter J. Hotez; title: Developing vaccines to combat hookworm infection and intestinal schistosomiasis / Peter J. Hotez et al.; title: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation approach and strategy to the neglected tropical diseases 1998-2010 / Julie Jacobson and Regina Rabinovich; title: Progress in control and elimination of human African trypanosomiasis, 2010 / Jean Jannin, Pere P. Simarro, and José R. Franco; title: Schistosomiasis: challenges and opportunities / Charles H. King; title: Neglected zoonotic diseases / Lonnie King; title: Diagnostic needs for NTD programs / Patrick J. Lammie et al.; title: Neglected tropical and zoonotic diseases and their impact on women's and children's health / Marian C. McDonald; title: Global funding of new products for neglected tropical diseases / Mary Moran; title: The global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis: health impact after 8 years / Eric A. Ottesen et al.; title: The economic benefits resulting from the first 8 years of the global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (2000-2007) / Brian K. Chu et al.; title: Neglected tropical diseases: the development of a brand with no copyright. A shift from a disease-centered to a tool-centered strategic approach / Lorenzo Savioli, Antonio Montresor, and Albis F. Gabrielli; title: Looking beyond the lamp post: addressing social determinants of neglected tropical diseases in devising integrated control strategies / Jerry M. Spiegel; title: Chagas disease impact and opportunities: beyond the historical dogma / Rick L. Tarleton