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All Hands on Deck: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Emerging Infectious Disease
- Source :
- Ecohealth, Repositorio Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, instacron:UASB
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Springer-Verlag, 2005.
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Abstract
- The increasing burden of emerging infectious diseases worldwide confronts us with numerous chal- lenges, including the imperative to design research and responses that are commensurate to understanding the complex social and ecological contexts in which infectious diseases occur. A diverse group of scientists met in Hawaii in March 2005 to discuss the linked social and ecological contexts in which infectious diseases emerge. A subset of the meeting was a group that focused on ''transdisciplinary approaches'' to integrating knowledge across and beyond academic disciplines in order to improve prevention and control of emerging infections. This article is based on the discussions of that group. Here, we outline the epidemiological legacy that has dominated infectious disease research and control up until now, and introduce the role of new, transdisciplinary and systems-based approaches to emerging infectious diseases. We describe four cases of transboundary health issues and use them to discuss the potential benefits, as well as the inherent difficulties, in understanding the social-ecological contexts in which infectious diseases occur and of using transdisciplinary approaches to deal with them.
- Subjects :
- VIROSIS
medicine.medical_specialty
INTERDISCIPLINARIDAD
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Ecology (disciplines)
Original Contributions
030231 tropical medicine
Nipah virus
emerging infectious diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Emerging infections
medicine
transdisciplinary
030212 general & internal medicine
SARS
VIH/SIDA
Government
Ecology
business.industry
Public health
HIV
PREVENCIÓN Y CONTROL DE ENFERMEDADES
NIPAH VIRUS
3. Good health
social–ecological systems
Animal ecology
Infectious disease (medical specialty)
Immunology
Emerging infectious disease
ENFERMEDADES TRANSMISIBLES
Engineering ethics
business
Discipline
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16129210 and 16129202
- Volume :
- 2
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ecohealth
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....89bf4dd6a3c5986c6a66cf28c89f334e