Screen LibraryTuberculosis : an interdisciplinary perspective /
"The fact that the World Health Organization has declared tuberculosis a global emergency indicates the serious inadequacy of the ways in which the control methods at our disposal are used. Several books on tuberculosis have been published in recent years, but none have taken a deep and detaile...
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Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | London : Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | 1999. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/P123#t=toc |
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"The fact that the World Health Organization has declared tuberculosis a global emergency indicates the serious inadequacy of the ways in which the control methods at our disposal are used. Several books on tuberculosis have been published in recent years, but none have taken a deep and detailed look at the holistic aspects of global tuberculosis control, even though international agencies are increasingly aware of the importance of the numerous factors other than the design and efficacy of therapeutic drug regimens. This unique book fills that gap. Although it deals specifically with tuberc |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvii,509pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781848160552 |
| Index Number: | RA644 |
| CLC: | R520.1 |
| Contents: | 1. The global burden of tuberculosis / John M. Grange -- 2. Determinants of the tuberculosis burden in populations / Klaus Jochem and John Walley -- 3. A critique of the global effort: do tuberculosis control programmes only exist on paper? A perspective from a developing country / M. Angelica Salomao -- 4. The politics of tuberculosis: the role of process and power / Gill Walt -- 5. Public health and human rights: the ethics of international public health interventions for tuberculosis / Paul Pronyk and John Porter -- Tuberculosis in high-prevalence countries current control strategies and |