Research priorities for the environment, agriculture, and infectious diseases of poverty technical report of the TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty.
| Author/creator | TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty |
| Other author | World Health Organization. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Geneva : World Health Organization, [2013] |
| Description | xiii, 125 pages : illustrations (black and white), 1 map (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | WHO technical report series, 0512-3054 ; 976 World Health Organization technical report series ; 976. 0512-3054 UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: 1.1.Rationale and context -- 1.1.1.Systems-based approaches -- 1.1.2.Recent resurgence of infectious diseases -- 1.1.3.Emerging diseases -- 1.1.4.Environmental and social determinants of infectious diseases -- 1.1.5.Interdisciplinary research priorities -- 1.2.Group membership -- 1.3.Host country -- 1.4.Think Tank members -- 2.1.Selection of TRG members -- 2.2.First TRG meeting -- 2.3.Stakeholder consultation -- 2.4.Second TRG meeting -- 2.5.Third TRG meeting -- 2.6.Prioritization process -- 2.6.1.Literature review -- 2.6.2.Principles of priority setting -- 2.6.3.Multi-criteria decision analysis -- 2.6.3.1.Rationale -- 2.6.3.2.Methodology -- 2.6.3.3.Research prioritization -- 2.6.3.4.Criteria identification -- 2.7.Transformation of TRG report into a WHO Technical Report -- 3.1.Vector-borne diseases -- 3.2.Waterborne diseases -- 3.3.Airborne diseases -- 3.4.Rodent-borne diseases -- 3.5.Soil-borne diseases -- 3.6.Foodborne diseases -- 3.7.Disease transmitted by body fluids -- 3.8.Other possible classifications of human infectious diseases -- 3.8.1.Socioeconomic status -- 3.8.2.Vaccination status or underlying immune status -- 3.8.3.Vaccine preventability -- 3.8.4.Form of the infectious agent -- 3.8.5.Zoonoses, reverse zoonoses, anthroponoses and epizoonoses -- 3.8.6.Burden of disease over time -- 3.9.Infectious diseases of non-human species that indirectly affect human health -- 3.9.1.Farmed mammals, birds and fish -- 3.9.2.Birds, bats, bees and amphibians -- 3.9.3.Infectious diseases of plants -- 3.10.Emerging infectious diseases -- 3.11.Infections and chronic diseases -- 4.1.Forestry changes, ecological disruption and contamination -- 4.2.Dams, lakes and irrigation systems -- 4.3.Agricultural intensification -- 4.4.Climate change and infectious diseases of poverty -- 4.5.Other environmental and agricultural driving forces -- 5.1.Poverty -- 5.2.Population growth -- 5.3.Urbanization -- |
| Contents | 5.4.Cultural forces and institutional change -- 6.1.One Health-One Medicine -- 6.2.Eco-biological mechanisms of interaction -- 6.2.1.The opening of new 'ecological niches' for microbes -- 6.2.2.Global trade in bushmeat and its interaction with infections -- 6.2.3.Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and other bat-associated infections -- 6.3.Environmental quality and the burden of infectious diseases -- 6.4.Climate, seasonality, environmental change, geography and infectious diseases -- 6.5.Climate change and helminthiases (other than schistosomiasis) -- 6.6.The value of the socio-ecological perspective -- 6.7.Success stories -- 7.1.Links between undernutrition and immunity -- 7.2.Undernutrition and infections: non-immunological links -- 7.3.Hunger and the first Millennium Development Goal -- 7.4.Tensions and synergies between agriculture and health -- 7.5.Agriculture and the Millennium Development Goals -- 7.6.Environment, agriculture and health: sectoral cooperation -- 7.7.Global action plan -- 7.8.Global information systems and databases -- 8.1.Vector-borne diseases -- 8.1.1.Malaria -- 8.1.2.Dengue fever -- 8.1.3.Chagas disease -- 8.1.3.1.Biofuel plantations -- 8.1.3.2.Amazon Countries' Initiative for Surveillance and Control of Chagas Disease -- 8.1.3.3.Challenges for the future -- 8.2.Waterborne diseases -- 8.2.1.Schistosomiasis in Africa -- 8.2.2.Schistosomiasis in south-east and east Asia -- 8.2.2.1.Schistosomiasis and climate change in China -- 9.1.Criteria preferences and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) results -- 9.2.Relevant research priorities identified by others -- 9.3.Priorities for policy-makers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789241209762 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9241209763 (pbk.) |
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