Disease emergence and health transitions in the last millennium

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 543-548

  Donaldson, Liam ^a  

^a Department of Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; HYGIENE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORTRAITS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 0034328487     PISSN: 00358819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/plague/decameron.htm.
2. Milburn JE, Miller ST (eds). Sunderland River, town and people: a history from the 1780s. Sunderland: Thomas Reed Printers Ltd, 1988.
3. Drever F, Whitehead M (eds). Health inequalities: decennial supplement: DS series no 15. London: The Stationery Office, 1998.
4. Donaldson LJ, Donaldson RJ. Essential public health. Reading: Petroc Press, 2000.
5. Chadwick E. Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain. (Flinn MW, ed). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1965.
6. Fisher RB. Edward Jenner. London: André Deutsch Limited, 1991.
7. Krause RM. Emerging infections. New York: Academic Press, 1998.
8. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Update on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1982;31:507-8, 513-14.
9. Weiss RA, Wrangham RW. From Pan to pandemic. Nature 1999;397: 385-6.
10. Maxwell RJ. An unplayable hand?: BSE, CJD and British government. London: King's Fund Publishing, 1997.
11. Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food. The microbiological safety of food; parts I and II: the report of the Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food to the Secretary of State for Health, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Secretaries of State for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. London: HMSO, 1990.
12. National Audit Office. The management and control of hospital acquired infection in acute NHS trusts in England. London: The Stationery Office, 2000.
13. Hiramatsu K, Hanaki H, Ino T, Yabuta K, et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical strain with reduced vancomycin susceptibility. J Antimicrob Chemother 1997;40:135-6.
14. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin - United States 1997. Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1997; 46:765-6.
15. Interdepartmental Steering Group on Resistance to Antibiotics and other Antimicrobial Agents (chaired by Dr Pat Troop). UK anti-microbial resistance strategy and action plan. London: Department of Health, 2000.
16. Department of Health. Saving lives: our healthier nation. London: The Stationery Office, 1999.
17. Department of Health and Social Security. Inequalities in health: report of a research working group (The Black Report). London: HMSO, 1980.
18. Marmot M, Shipley MJ, Rose G. Inequalities in death - specific explanations of a general pattern? Lancet 1984;1:1003-6.
19. Doll R, Hill AB. A study of aetiology of carcinoma of the lung. Br Med J 1952;2:1271-86.
20. Lerner DJ, Kannel WB. Patterns of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality in the sexes: a 26 year follow up of the Framingham population. Am Heart J 1986;111:383-90.
21. Wilkinson RG. Unhealthy societies: the afflictions of inequality. London: Routledge, 1996.
22. Acheson D. Report of the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health. London: The Stationery Office, 1998.