Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 154-172

  Emch, Michael ^a,b   Root, Elisabeth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic aging and shift in age distribution and chronic disease emergence; Disease emergence as a result of changing geographies; Diseases emerging and sweeping in populations and serious public health problems; Drivers of emerging and re emerging diseases; Emerging and re emerging diseases increasing in incidence or geographic range; H5N1 epidemic in Hong Kong; Human demographic change and behavior; Interaction of ecological drivers; Political conflict and breakdown of public health infrastructure; Population, society, and environment in dynamic equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889446339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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