Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases
Pathogen Control and Public Health Management in Low-Income Countries
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 June 2018
- ISBN 9780198789840
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages334 pages
- Size 248x189x16 mm
- Weight 714 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Over 50 illustrations 0
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Short description:
Provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, focusing on low-income countries for effective public health applications and outcomes.
MoreLong description:
In recent years, the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases has been studied extensively and new approaches to the study of host-pathogen interactions continue to emerge. At the same time, pathogen control in low-income countries has tended to remain largely informed by classical epidemiology, where the objective is to treat as many people as possible, despite recent research suggesting new opportunities for improved disease control in the context of limited economic resources. The need to integrate the scientific developments in the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases with public health strategy in low-income countries is now more important than ever.
This novel text uniquely incorporates the latest research in ecology and evolutionary biology into the discussion of public health issues in low-income countries. It brings together an international team of experts from both universities and health NGOs to provide an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, focusing on low-income countries for effective public health applications and outcomes. It discusses a range of public health threats including malaria, TB, HIV, measles, Ebola, tuberculosis, influenza and meningitis among others.
The cherry on the sundae is [...] the final chapter, in which the editors deliver a synthesis that takes the form of a list of key problems in public health that could be improved by applying evolutionary ecology, complete with recommendations. The heads of government — all heads of government — would do well to read it.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Infectious diseases in low-income countries: Where are we now?
Current control strategies for infectious diseasesin low income countries
Research in crises: overcoming obstacles and lessons for the future
Afterword I: The burden
Spatial-temporal transmission dynamics and control of infectious diseases: Ebola virus disease (EVD) as a case study
Environmental change and pathogen transmission
Antimicrobial resistance: the 70-year arms race between Humans and Bacteria
Viral evolution and impact for public health strategies in low-income countries
Afterword II: Fundamental knowledge
Using Disease Dynamics and Modeling to Inform Control Strategies in Low-Income Countries
Evolutionary control of infectious disease in low-income countries
Using pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities
Exploiting symbiotic interactions for vector/disease control
Host species diversity and the transmission of vector-borne disease in low income countries
Afterword III: Tunable methods
Malaria eradication in Italy: the story of a first success
Interactions between ecological and socio-economic drivers of Buruli ulcer burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Opportunities for an improved control.
Ecological control of schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa: restoration of predator-prey dynamics to reduce transmission
Afterword IV: Case studies
Optimizing public health strategies in low-income countries: Epidemiology, ecology and evolution for the control of malaria.
Human activities and disease transmission: the agriculture case
Ecology of Poverty, Disease and Health Care Delivery: Lessons for Planetary Health
African and global health care prospects: The importance of the use of knowledge
Optimizing public health strategies in low-income countries: The challenge to apply the scientific knowledge and for which disease?
Afterword
