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Global Challenge of Malaria, The: Past Lessons and Future Prospects

Editat de Frank Snowden, Richard Bucala
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 ian 2014
Malaria is one of the most important "emerging" or "resurgent" infectious diseases. According to the World Health Organization, this mosquito-borne infection is a leading cause of suffering, death, poverty, and underdevelopment in the world today. This book collects the many important milestones in malaria control and treatment.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789814405577
ISBN-10: 9814405574
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 168 x 249 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: World Scientific Publishing Company

Cuprins

Introduction - "Facing the Challenge of Malaria" (Frank Snowden); Lessons of History: The Eradication of Malaria in the United States (Margaret Humphreys); Technological Solutions: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Insecticidal Approach to Malaria Control, 1920 - 1950 (Darwin H Stapleton); The WHO African Pilot Projects and the Global Eradication Campaign (James L A Webb, Jr.); The Sardinian Project: Uses and Misues of History (Frank M Snowden); Why Has Popular Education Participation Not Featured More Prominently in Malaria Control? (Socrates Litsios); The Search for New Tools: Prospects and Difficulties of a Malaria Vaccine (Thomas L Richie); Vector Control Strategies (Manuel Lluberas); Qinghaosu to Artemisinin: How an Ancient Chinese Herbal Remedy Became First-Line Treatment (Jessica Lin and Stephen Meshnick); New Strategies of Vector Control Peter Agre, Jason Rasgon and Connie Liu); Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Malaria Prevention and Control: Strategies, Implementation, and Outcomes (Harry Flaster and Brian G Blackburn); Perspectives on the Contemporary Challenge: Italian Malariology after the Eradication: Contributing to an Understanding of the Entomological Evolutionary Bases of Malaria Ecology in Subsaharan Africa (Gilberto Corbellini); Malaria in the Gambia (Brian Greenwood); Strategies and Perspectives of the Gates Foundation (Janice Culpepper); Can We Eradicate Malaria? An Historical Perspective (Randall M Packard); The Scientific and Medical Challenge of Malaria (Richard Bucala).