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Population Mobility and Infectious Disease by Yorghos Apostolopoulos; Sevil F Sönmez is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Population Mobility and Infectious Disease moves beyond traditional behavioral and demographic theories of disease diffusion to focus on larger issues of social ecology and public health. With depth rarely seen in the international literature, it explores the complex and varied roles of mobile, transient, and displaced populations in the worldwide spread of airborne, waterborne, and sexually transmitted infections. The book argues that while biomedical events cause disease, social forces such as poverty and marginalization magnify them by giving them new opportunities to take hold. Population mobility—either voluntary or forced—brings contact between populations with different disease prevalence rates; outbreaks in turn are compounded by inequalities in access to medical care. From Katrina to Darfur, and from influenza to AIDS, an expert panel of health and social scientists bring the socioeconomic context of epidemics into clear focus: Historical perspectives on migration, development, and epidemics; Social resources and health barriers among migrant groups; The role of mobile labor populations (e.g., migrant workers, truckers, the military) in disease transmission; War, refugees,

Who reads Population Mobility and Infectious Disease?

Author

Yorghos Apostolopoulos; Sevil F Sönmez

Publisher

Springer US

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780387476674

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Nursing, Medicine