This book explores the complex roles of mobile, transient, and displaced populations in the worldwide spread of disease. While biomedical events cause disease, social forces such as poverty and marginalization magnify them by giving them opportunities to take hold. From Katrina to Darfur, and from i
Population mobility and infectious disease
β Scribed by Yiorgos Apostolopoulos; Sevil F SoΜnmez
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 321
- Category
- Library
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