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Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6)

Author : King K. Holmes

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 1027 pages

File Size : 40,92 MB

Release : 2017-11-06

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1464805253

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Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages of interventions and strategies across delivery platforms to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, adult febrile illness, viral hepatitis, and neglected tropical diseases. The volume emphasizes the need to effectively address emerging antimicrobial resistance, strengthen health systems, and increase access to care. The attainable goals are to reduce incidence, develop innovative approaches, and optimize existing tools in resource-constrained settings.



The Origins of AIDS

Author : Jacques Pépin

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 395 pages

File Size : 44,88 MB

Release : 2021-01-21

Category : History

ISBN : 1108487491

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An updated edition of Jacques Pépin's acclaimed account of the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic.



Global Health and the Future Role of the United States

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 23,13 MB

Release : 2017-10-05

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309457637

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While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.



Manson's Tropical Diseases E-Book

Author : Jeremy Farrar

Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences

Page : 1664 pages

File Size : 40,79 MB

Release : 2013-10-26

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0702053066

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From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, Manson's Tropical Diseases prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Featuring an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, this revised and updated medical reference book provides you with the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world. - Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. - Incorporate the latest therapies into your practice, such as recently approved drugs and new treatment options. - Find what you need easily and apply it quickly with highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables, extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management diagrams. - Make the most accurate Tropical Disease diagnoses through a completely redesigned and modernized format, which includes full-color images throughout plus a wealth of additional illustrations online at Expert Consult. - Apply the latest treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS, tropical neurology, malaria, and much more. - Put the latest international expertise to work for you and your patients with new chapters covering Global Health; Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases; Non-communicable Diseases; Obesity in the Tropics; and Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Resource-poor Settings. - See which diseases are most prevalent in specific areas of the tropics through a new index of diseases by country, as well as online-only maps that provide additional detail. - Better understand the variations in treatment approaches across the globe.



AIDS at 30

Author : Victoria A. Harden

Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 26,28 MB

Release : 2012-01-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1597972940

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Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the epidemic. Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon. After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analyzing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease, AIDS at 30 illustrates for both medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community’s response.



Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine

Author : Camilla Rothe

Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 31,58 MB

Release : 2020-10-22

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0702078808

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Using an easily accessible, highly templated format, Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 2nd Edition, provides more than 100 realistic scenarios for tropical infectious diseases. Full-color photographs and maps, a convenient question-and-answer presentation, and succinct summary boxes help you identify and understand the tropical diseases you’re likely to encounter. This up-to-date 2nd Edition is an excellent resource and study tool for infectious diseases fellows, doctors preparing for exams in tropical medicine, primary care doctors with patients who are global travelers, and global health nurses and practitioners alike. Offers realistic scenarios for encountering patients in rural, resource-poor settings, presenting cases as "unknowns," just as in a real clinic or emergency situation. Covers newly emerging diseases such as Zika virus, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), and knowlesi malaria. Features topics in migrant medicine of particular importance to clinicians in non-tropical countries, including louse-borne-relapsing fever, spinal brucellosis, and hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly. Includes "classic" tropical diseases such as African trypanosomiasis, chagas, leprosy, and yaws. Reflects the use of novel diagnostics used in resource-poor settings, as well as developing drug resistance in relevant cases. Provides a useful index and map that organize cases geographically, for a targeted approach to study. Serves as a companion to Manson's Tropical Diseases, with a reading list at the end of each case referring to the corresponding chapter in the larger text.



Manson's Tropical Diseases

Author : Gordon Charles Cook

Publisher : Bailliere Tindall Limited

Page : 1779 pages

File Size : 27,50 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Tropical medicine

ISBN : 9780702017643

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Book Description

This reference guide to tropical medicine contains a strong practical clinical bias, offering advice on the diagnosis and management of each particular disorder. This edition includes more information on non-infectious tropical disorders, as well as new photographs and colour pictures.



TB/HIV

Author : A. D. Harries

Publisher : World Health Organization

Page : 213 pages

File Size : 11,55 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9241546344

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This manual is designed for health professionals working in high HIV and TB prevalence countries. It summarises the characteristics of both diseases and their interactions. It concentrates particularly on the problems of diagnosis and management both in adults and children and summarises the other HIV related illnesses the clinician might encounter.



Buruli Ulcer

Author : Gerd Pluschke

Publisher : Springer

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 15,97 MB

Release : 2019-04-29

Category : Medical

ISBN : 3030111148

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Book Description

A major objective of this open access book is to summarize the current status of Buruli Ulcer (BU) research for the first time. It will identify gaps in our knowledge, stimulate research and support control of the disease by providing insight into approaches for surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment of Buruli Ulcer. Book chapters will cover the history, epidemiology diagnosis, treatment and disease burden of BU and provide insight into the microbiology, genomics, transmission and virulence of Mycobacterium ulcerans.



Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries

Author : Dean T. Jamison

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 1449 pages

File Size : 42,5 MB

Release : 2006-04-02

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0821361805

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Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effectiveinterventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated effortsto optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists,academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the worldcontributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identifiedchallenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensivereference volume on the state of health in developing countries.