Global health a challenge for interdisciplinary research
Human, animal and plant health is a field of work which offers opportunities for inter- and trans-disciplinary research. The whole topic bridges the natural and social sciences. Today, in a world of global environmental change it is widely recognized that human societies and their wellbeing depend o...
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Göttingen :
Universitätsverlag Göttingen
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Editorial : A challenge for interdisciplinary research / Martin Kappas Global Health
- I. Setting the Scene
- 2. Knowledge based approaches to international health: The Eurolife International Health Alliance
- 3. The One Health Concept in a development context
- 4. Commitments on a global level translating into actions locally
- 5. Linkages between economic and health outcomes: Options for interventions for better health
- 6. Cross-cultural bioethics as an interdisciplinary approach
- 7. The role of plant health for human health
- 8. Inter-disciplinary health approaches for poverty alleviation: Control of neglected zoonoses in developing countries
- 9. Arbovirus infections in cattle
- II. Health risks related to maternal and child mortality - examples from Africa and India
- 10. Maternal mortality: A consequence of a lack of reverence for life?
- 11. Risk of maternal mortality: Indian scenario
- 12. Neonatal infection in resource-limited countries
- 13. Reducing child and maternal undernutrition in the context of food security programmes - Ongoing activities of FAO
- 14. Global policies and local implementation: Maternal mortality in rural India
- 15. Research as a tool to tackle maternal health problems in resource-poor settings
- 16. The agriculture and health program of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), a CGIAR institution in Africa
- III. Specific initiatives and research topics under the vision of GIHN
- 17. Asperigillosis: a major challenge for public health
- 18. IGHEP - a partnership on health education between Indonesian and German universities
- 19. Usefulness of microbiological laboratories in a rural African setting
- 20. Rapid diagnostics for resource-poor settings
- 21. Urinary tract infections in Tanzania: Diagnosis, pathogens and susceptibility pattern
- 22. Rapid screening and mapping of urinary schistosomiasis prevalence at the village scale in the Sourou Valley, Burkina Faso
- 23. Schistosomiasis around the Lake Victoria, Northwest Tanzania
- 24. Malaria in Kossi Province, Burkina Faso: An investigation of spatio-temporal incidence pattern
- 25. Anemia - What has to be investigated in an African setting?
- 26. Two weeks cataract surgery in rural Ethiopia
- 27. Ultrasonography at a rural district hospital in sub-Saharan Africa - a mixed blessing?
- 28. Medical Geography and travel-related health risks in Overseas Tourism.
