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Diseases and Human History

Aginam, Obijiofor, Global Public Health Issues Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law, 2001.

McGinn, Anne Platt. Confronting Infectious Diseases Transaction Publishers Society, vol. 35, no. 4. 1998.

Wilson, Mary E. “Infectious Diseases: An Ecological Perspective.” British Medical Journal, vol. 311, no. 7021. December 23, 1995.

Diseases “Go Global”

America’s Health Rankings. Infectious Disease.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats. A Prevention Strategy for the United States.” Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1994.

Center for Strategic & International Studies. Infectious Diseases.

National Intelligence Council. “The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States.” National Intelligence Estimate. 2000.

University of Maryland, Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research, “State Failure Task Force: Internal Wars and Failures of Governance,” 1955-2000,

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/inscr/ (accessed March 7, 2002). 

Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health

Increased Global Travel

Krause, Richard M. “The Origin of Plagues: Old and New.” American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. 257, no. 5073. August 21, 1992.

McGinn, Anne Platt. “Confronting Infectious Diseases.” Transaction Publishers Society, vol. 35, no. 4. 1998.

Sachs, Susan, “More Screening of Immigrants for TB Sought,” The New York Times, January 3, 2000.

Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On. St. Martin, 1987; and Penguin, 1988.

UN World Tourism Organization. UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2011 Edition.

Increased Trade of Goods

Bettcher, Douglas W.; Yach, Derek; Guindon. G. Emmanuel. “Global Trade and Health: Key Linkages and Future Challenges,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, April 1, 2000, vol. 78, p. 521.

Ribbeck, Mike. “Killers from Paradise,” Western Daily Press, January 11, 2002, p.5.

Food-Borne Illnesses

Gerth, Jeff, and Weiner, Tim. “Tainted Imports—A special report.” New York Times, September 28, 1997, sec. A, p. 1.

Mander, Jerry, and Goldsmith, Edward, The Case Against the Global Economy, Sierra Club Books: San Francisco, 1996.

Rice, William, “Winter Garden; Boom in International Produce Trade Puts Formerly Out-of-Season Food Within Reach of the Frozen Midwest,” Chicago Tribune, January 31, 2001.

Urbanization

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Propects, the 2010 Revision. http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Urbanization Propects, the 2009 Revision Database. http://esa.un.org/wup2009/unup/index.asp.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Urbanization Prospects, the 2009 Revision. New York, 2010.

United Nations Population Division. “World Urbanization Prospects: The 1999 Revision,” www.un.org/esa/population/pubsarchive/urbanization/urbanization.pdf (accessed March 6, 2002).

Climate Change

Stevens, William K. “Warmer, Wetter, Sicker: Linking Climate to Health,” The New York Times, August 10, 1998, sec. A, P. 1.

Wilson, Mary E. “Infectious Diseases: an Ecological Perspective.” British Medical Journal, vol. 311, no. 7021. December 23, 1995.

Localized Environmental Concerns

McGinn, Anne Platt. “Confronting Infectious Diseases.” Transaction Publishers Society, vol. 35, no. 4. 1998.

Third World Network, “The political ecology of the resurgence of malaria in India” (by Mira Shiva and Vandana Shiva), http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/india-cn.htm (accessed March 7, 2002)

Microbial Drug Resistance

Nash, J. Madeleine. “The Antibiotic Crisis,” Time, January 15, 2001, p. 90.

National Intelligence Council. “The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States.” National Intelligence Estimate. 2000.

World Health Organization. WHO Report 2010: Global Tuberculosis Control. World Health Organization: 2010, Switzerland.

Breakdowns in Public Health Systems

Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point, New York: Little Brown & Co., 2000

World Health Organization. Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development. “Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.” Geneva. 2001.

Global Disease or Globalization Disease?

Berkley, SF. AIDS in the global village. “Why U.S. physicians should care about HIV outside the United States Editorial).” JAMA 1992; 268:3368-9.

The Global Public Health System

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats. A Prevention Strategy for the United States. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1994.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The Deadly Intersection Between TB and HIV.” June, 1998, www.thebody.com/cdc/old-hivtb.html (accessed March 7, 2002).

Council on Foreign Relations. Kassalow, Jordan S. “Why Health Is Important to U.S. Foreign Policy,” 2001, http://www.cfr.org/public/pubs
/Kassalow_Health_Paper.html
(accessed March 7, 2002).

Lanjouw. Jean O. “A Patent Policy Proposal for Global Diseases.” The Brookings Institution, June 11, 2001, http://www.brook.edu/views/papers/
lanjouw/20010611.htm
(accessed March 7, 2002).

New York Times Editorial, “Health Aid for Poor Countries,” January 3, 2002.

Sachs, Jeffrey, “What $8 a Year Could Do for Africa,” The Washington Post, May 23, 2000.

WHO Press Release. “WHO to Push for $66 Billion Investment in Health.” January 14, 2002. http://www.who.int/inf/en/pr-2002-01.html. (accessed March 7, 2002).

Global Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2009 H1N1 Flu. August 2010. http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Global Report: UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010. http://www.unaids.org/globalreport/global_report.htm.

World Health Organization. Media Centre: Malaria Fact Sheet. April 2010. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/index.html.

 

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