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Globalization and emerging governance modalities

This paper explores the possibilities for global governance effectively dealing with the international transmission of disease. First, zoonotic regulation and control pose a special case for public health agen...

Authors: Deane Edward Neubauer

Emerging zoonotic diseases: An opportunity to apply the concepts of nidality and one-medicine

The use of animals as sentinels of human disease revolves around the concept of nidality. That is, an agent of disease occupies a particular ecologic niche and alterations in that niche will change the functio...

Authors: John R. Herbold

Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Singapore

A Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak occurred in Singapore from February to May 2003. A high vigilance for the disease, frequent and regular temperature monitoring, early case identification and...

Authors: Kwai Pen Chan

Lessons learned from international responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

In early February 2003, a previously unknown disease causing severe pneumonia was recognised. This disease which is now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is believed to have had its origins in ...

Authors: Hitoshi Oshitani

Advocacy, promotion and e-learning: Supercourse for zoonosis

This paper discusses the history of emerging infectious diseases, risk communication and perception, and the Supercourse lectures as means to strengthen the concepts and definition of risk management and globa...

Authors: Gino C. Matibag, Manabu Igarashi, Ron E. La Porte and Hiko Tamashiro

Disease ecology and the global emergence of zoonotic pathogens

The incidence and frequency of epidemic transmission of zoonotic diseases, both known and newly recognized, has increased dramatically in the past 30 years. It is thought that this dramatic disease emergence i...

Authors: Bruce A. Wilcox and Duane J. Gubler

HIV/AIDS prevention in China: A challenge for the new millennium

China’s first HIV infection was officially reported in 1985 and by the end of 1996, there may have been up to 200,000 people affected nationwide. In 2001, this figure probably exceeded 600,000. By 2003, the pr...

Authors: Derek R. Smith, Ning Wei, Peter A. Leggat and Rui-Sheng Wang

Association between APACHE II score and nosocomial infections in intensive care unit patients: A multicenter cohort study

To examine whether nosocomial infection risk increases with APACHE II score, which is an index of severity-of-illness, in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

Authors: Machi Suka, Katsumi Yoshida and Jun Takezawa

Psychosocial stressors in inter-human relationships and health at each life stage: A review

Currently, psychosocial stressors’ impacts on health are increasing. Among these stressors, this review focused on inter-human relationships. Since social supports could be protective against ill health, conse...

Authors: Sadanobu Kagamimori, Ali Nasermoaddeli and Hongbing Wang

Impact of intensive care unit-acquired infection on hospital mortality in Japan: A multicenter cohort study

To elucidate factors associated with hospital mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and to evaluate the impact of ICU-acquired infection on hospital mortality in the context of the drug resistance of...

Authors: Machi Suka, Katsumi Yoshida and Jun Takezawa

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Authors: Mizue Okada, Yoshinori Okada, Ryoichi Inaba and Hirotoshi Iwata

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Authors: Shinya Matsuda, Miyako Omoto, Tsunehiko Imai, Kumiko Seki, Ryoji Nomura, Yumi Otahara, Tsutomu Yoshida, Syogo Shima, Hideki Kurita, Kaoru Nagaoka, Hiroshige Taniwaki, Yasuki Asada, Kai-ping Shai, Mitsumasa Koike, Kunihiko Morita, Yutaka Watanabe…

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Authors: Ryoichi Inaba, Haruo Sugiura, Hirotoshi Iwata and Takuji Tanaka