Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Social inequalities and emerging infectious diseases.

Although many who study emerging infections subscribe to social-production-of-disease theories, few have examined the contribution of social inequalities to disease emergence. Yet such inequalities have powerfully sculpted not only the distribution of infectious diseases, but also the course of disease in those affected. Outbreaks of Ebola, AIDS, and tuberculosis suggest that models of disease ...

emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: public health perspective

-

Social and Environmental Vulnerability to Emerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) have been broadly defined as ‘diseases that have recently increased in incidence or geographic range, recently moved into new host populations, recently been discovered or are caused by newly-evolved pathogens’ (Daszak et al., 2001). In the past three decades, at least 40 EIDs have been identified, not including the regional resurgence of the widespread endem...

Social Science and the Study of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Topics related to emerging and reemerging infectious diseases attracted a considerable audience at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 15–19, 1995, in Washington, D.C. The meeting had a separate session entitled “Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Biocultural and Sociocultural Approaches.” The session brought together anthropologists interested in ...

New, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases.