Population dynamics and infectious diseases in Asia [based on ... selected papers first presented at an International Workshop Entitled Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia, held in Singapore in October 2004

Initially stimulated by a scholarly workshop convened in Singapore in late 2004, and written over the subsequent 18 months, this volume considers the potentially lethal pattern of infectious disease emergence in Asia. It studies linkages to changes in patterns of human activity, including but not limited to shifts in the distribution and concentration of human settlements and the patterns of movement within and between them. It explores the causes and consequences of infectious agents in the region historically and examines such newly emergent natural biological threats as SARS and avian influenza.Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives, the book contains analyses rooted in the social, physical and biological sciences as well as works which span these fields. Among the issues considered are the ways in which changes in our natural and built environment, social and economic pressures, shifting policies and patterns of collaboration in responding to disease impact upon our approach to and success in containing serious threats.Infection control has moved beyond the province of clinical experts, epidemiologists and microbiologists, into the mathematics of epidemic prevention and control, as well as the overall physical and human ecology and historical contexts of emerging infections. Not only does such a broad approach enable appreciation of complex forces driving growing epidemic risks in Asia today, it also reveals the importance and relevance of population dynamics, as well as the global urgency of alleviating unsatisfactory health conditions in Asia. The topic and the broad approach has international appeal beyond the region as many of these forces operate throughout the world. Introduction. 1. Transdisciplinary approaches to population dynamics and infectious diseases in Asia / Adrian C. Sleigh ... [et al.] -- Frameworks for understanding population dynamics and infectious diseases in Asia. 2. Ecological and social influences on emergence and resurgence of infectious diseases / Anthony J. McMichael. 3. Landscape epidemiology and migration: insights and problems at several scales for transmissible diseases / David J. Bradley. 4. Water, dams and infection: Asian challenges / Adrian C. Sleigh. 5. The impact of imported infection / Niels G. Becker and Kathryn Glass. 6. Demographic and epidemiological transitions in Asia: comparative health policies for emerging infectious diseases / Phua Kai Hong and Vernon J. M. Lee -- Development and infectious diseases in Asia. 7. Control of infectious diseases and rising life expectancy in Shanghai: 1950-2003 / Zhongwei Zhao ... [et al.]. 8. Social change and infectious diseases in Northern Mountain Vietnam / Tran Lam Nguyen. 9. NGOs and the re-organisation of "community development" in Northern Thailand: mediating the flows of people living with HIV and AIDS / Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. 10. HIV/AIDS in Singapore: state policies, social norms and civil society action / Shir Nee Ong and Brenda S. A. Yeoh -- Population mobility and infectious diseases in Asia. 11. Cultivating the market: mobility, labour and sexual exchange in Northwest Laos / Chris Lyttleton. 12. Household poverty, off-farm migration and pulmonary tuberculosis in rural Henan, China / Sukhan Jackson ... [et al.]. 13. Migration, gender, and STD risk: a case study of female temporary migrants in Southwestern China / Xiushi Yang. 14. The Hajj pilgrimage: public health consequences of the largest people mass movement / Annelies Wilder-Smith -- Comparative perspectives on SARS in Asia. 15. Epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases in Singapore, with special reference to SARS / Kee Tai Goh and Suok Kai Chew. 16. Probable roles of bio-aerosol dispersion in the SARS outbreak in Amoy Gardens, Hong Kong / Yuguo Li ... [et al.]. 17. Discourse of "Othering" during the SARS outbreak in Taiwan: a news analysis / Mei-Ling Hsu and Ching-I Liu. 18. Risk perception and coping responses in a SARS outbreak in Malaysia / Chan Chee Khoon. 19. A defining moment, defining a moment: making SARS history in Singapore / Liew Kai Khiun. 20. SARS and China's rural migrant labour: roots of a governance crisis / David Kelly and Xiaopeng Luo -- Drawing lessons from the past to respond to future challenges. 21. Avian flu: one more infection challenge from Asia / Adrian C. Sleigh, Rachel Safman and Phua Kai Hong