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 / TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty, issuing body.

Series:

Technical report series (World Health Organization) ; 976.

WHO technical report series, 0512-3054 ; 976

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases.

Infection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Place of Publication:

Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Thematic Reference Group on Environment Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TRG 4) addresses the nature of the intersections and interactions between environment agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty in order to identify research priorities for improved disease control. This report reviews the connections between environmental change modern agricultural practices and the occurrence of infectious diseases - especially those of poverty- and proposes a methodology that can be used to prioritize research on such diseases. Although there is some comprehension of the underly

Contents:

CONTENTS; WHO/TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TRG 4) 2008-2010; Abbreviations ; Executive summary ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Methodology and prioritization ; 3. Human infectious diseases: categorization ; 4. Environmental and agricultural drivers of infectious diseases of poverty ; 5. Social drivers of infectious diseases of poverty ; 6. Selected recent scientific advances, insights and successes; 7. Hunger, nutrition, poverty and immunity ; 8. Environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty: selected examples

9. Research priorities10. Conclusions; Acknowledgements ; References ; Annex 1; Research priorities ranked 1-143, determined using the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodology ; Appendix 1; Membership of Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TRG4); Appendix 2; Disease-specific and thematic reference groups (DRGs/TRGs) of The Think Tank for infectious diseases of poverty and host countries ; Appendix 3; Composition of the TDR Think Tank ; Appendix 4 ; Distribution of the Think Tank leadership (co-Chairs)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 20, 2014).

ISBN:

92-4-069064-6

OCLC:

893683028