The changing face of disease
Subtitle: implications for society
By: edited by N. Mascie-Taylor, J. Peters and S. McGarvey.
Contributors: Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N.; Peters, J.; McGarvey, S.; Society for the Study of Human Biology.
Series: Society for the Study of Human Biology series
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Epidemiology -- Congresses.; Social medicine -- Congresses.; Public health -- Congresses.; Medical anthropology -- Congresses.; Public Health; Epidemiology; Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emerging disease in the third epidemiological transition; title: Life history perspectives on human disease; title: The Evolution, transmission and geographic spread of infectious diseases in human populations: questions and models; title: Genetic epidemiology of parasitic diseases; title: Urban pollution, disease and the health of children; title: Protecting pregnant women from malaria; title: Interdisciplinary research on Schistosoma japonicum; title: Unravelling gene-environment interactions in type 2 diabetes; title: Investigating the "hidden" epidemic: sexual behaviour and representation of HIV/AIDS amongst business people and medical personnel in five Central and Eastern European nations; title: The Evolution of disease and the devolution of health care for American Indians; title: The Public's health: the changing role of public health; title: Human behaviour and the changing pattern of disease.