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Population mobility and infectious disease

✍ Scribed by Apostolopulos, Giōrgos


Publisher
Springer
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Leaves
327
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Content: Demographic and Epidemiological Perspectives of Human Movement.- Demographic and Epidemiological Perspectives of Human Movement.- Key Themes Pertinent to Migration, Health, and Disease.- Population Mobility and the Geography of Microbial Threats.- Health Barriers and Inequities for Migrants.- Social Networks, Social Capital, and HIV Risks Among Migrants.- Labor Induced Migration and Disease Diffusion.- Economic Migrants and Health Vulnerability.- Military Personnel: On the Move and Vulnerable/AIDS to HIV and other STIs.- Selling Sex in the Era of AIDS: Mobile Sexworkers and STI/HIV Risks.- Tracing the Diffusion of Infectious Diseases in the Transport Sector.- Forced Migration: A Public Health Catastrophe.- War, Refugees, Migration, and Public Health: Do Infectious Diseases Matter?.- Natural Disasters, Climate Change, and the Health of Mobile Populations.- Leisure Migration and Health Concerns: A Paradox or Inevitability?.- Casual Sex in the Sun Makes the Holiday: Young Tourists' Perspectives.- In Search of the Exotic: Sex Tourism and Disease Risks.- Mapping and Modeling Disease Risk Among Mobile Populations.- Ethical and Legal Issues Impacting Migrant Health.- Migration in a Mobile World: Health, Population Mobility, and Emerging Disease.

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Infektionskrankheit.;Mobilität.


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