Overview
Assesses the risk of 21 major infectious diseases in BRI Countries
Highlights infectious diseases as an important public health security problem globally
Compiles recent disease control and prevention experience
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book systematically assesses the risk of 21 major infectious diseases threatening BRI countries. It consists of 14 chapters. Chapter 1 is an overview. Chapter 2 introduces the history of health cooperation between China and other BRI countries. Chapters 3-14 introduce the prevalence of major infectious diseases threatening BRI countries such as cholera, vaccine preventable diseases (polio, measles, meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, diphtheria, hepatitis A), tuberculosis, influenza, and insect-borne diseases (Dengue fever, Zika virus disease, yellow fever, Chikungunya, Rift Valley fever), plague, malaria, Ebola virus disease, MERS, schistosomiasis, COVID-19 and AIDS, and risk factors, principles and cases of their prevention and control.
It is a useful reference book in the research of infectious disease control and prevention, and provides historical experience and lessons learned. It also provides decision support for international cooperation among BRI countries in the field of epidemic prevention and control in the future.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Professor Weizhong Yang, is Vice President of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, Executive Dean of School of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Vice President of the UN Consultative Committee on Life Science and Human Health (CCLH), China Association of Science and Technology (CAST).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in BRI Countries
Editors: Weizhong Yang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6958-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: People's Medical Publishing House, PR of China 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6957-3Published: 20 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6960-3Published: 21 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6958-0Published: 19 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 188
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Epidemiology