Overview
- Approaches infectious-disease management with a focus on health, rural livelihood and poverty in developing countries
- Focuses on how the lack of resources and poor management of infectious diseases can have catastrophic outcomes with reference to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa
- Suggests infectious-disease control and management strategies that are favourable for developing countries and poor communities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Keywords
- Developing countries and infectious diseases
- Disease surveillance in developing countries
- Infectious disease management strategies
- Infectious diseases and Health Care
- Infectious diseases and Surveillance
- Infectious diseases and Transportation
- Infectious diseases and rural livelihood
- Infectious diseases, Disease Awareness and Prevention
- Traditions, cultures and infectious diseases
- infectious diseases
About this book
This book focuses on the effects of rural livelihood and the impact of infectious diseases on health and poverty. It explores cultures and traditions in developing countries and their role in infectious-disease management and prevention. It highlights the associated healthcare systems and how these have contributed to some of the challenges faced, and goes on to elaborate on the significance of community involvement in infectious-disease prevention, management and control. It also emphasizes the importance of surveillance and setting up strategies on infectious-disease management that are favourable for poor communities and developing countries. Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries allows students, researchers, healthcare workers, stakeholders and governments to better understand the vicious cycle of health, poverty and livelihoods in developing countries and to develop strategies that can work better in these regions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries
Authors: Fingani Annie Mphande
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0428-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0426-1Published: 22 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9159-9Due: 14 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0428-5Published: 11 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 187
Number of Illustrations: 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention