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Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.The 2013-2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a public health disaster: 28,575 infections and 11,313 deaths (as of October 2015), devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; a slow and mismanaged international response; and sensationalistic media coverage, seized upon by politicians to justify wrongheaded policy. And yet there were also promising developments that may improve future responses to infectious disease epidemics: the UN Security Council's first involvement in a public health event; a s…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Smith, Tara C. (Associate Professor, Kent State University) (Hrsg.) / Majumder, Maimuna S. (Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-03507-1
- EAN: 9780262035071
- Produktnummer: 19814665
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H16.3 cm x B23.6 cm x D2.3 cm 532 g
- Abbildungen: 7 b 14 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 532
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Nicholas G. Evans is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.Tara C. Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, and Epidemiology at Kent State University College of Public Health.Maimuna S. Majumder is a PhD student in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT and a Research Fellow at the HealthMap Computational Epidemiology Group at Boston Children's Hospital.
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