"The ongoing COVID-19 disater-and the universal realization of the unceasing threat of even worse pandemics in the future-has resulted in a wealth of books, scientific papers, and journalistic analyses on the politics, medicine, and human tragedy of recent events. The Nature of Pandemics is not...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Von Lubitz, Dag (HerausgeberIn), Gibson, Candace J. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Boca Raton ; Abingdon CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 2023
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Pandemie Pandemics / History Communicable diseases / History World health / Diseases / History Epidemiology / Political aspects
Zusammenfassung:	"The ongoing COVID-19 disater-and the universal realization of the unceasing threat of even worse pandemics in the future-has resulted in a wealth of books, scientific papers, and journalistic analyses on the politics, medicine, and human tragedy of recent events. The Nature of Pandemics is not an outcrop of COVID-19 publication frenzy. It was conceived in the period between the SARS and Ebola pandemics, intended to address the critical, but commonly overlooked issues, that limit our readiness, immediate recognition, and rapid response to pandemic outbreaks. The book is the first to look holistically at the nature of pandemics as a phenomenon, and the challenges of mounting an organized, concerted global response to a worldwide lethal bioevent. While the majority of healthcare professionals at national and international levels recognize the danger, the establishment of consistent and effective countermeasures in the form of a global anti-pandemic network is, at best, still sporadic and inconsistent. The need to react quickly, and unhesitatingly mobilize all needed resources-rather than embark on a slow, deliberative and politically safe approach-is probably the paramount obstacle to the effective containment of a pandemic disease. Chapters are written by internationally known and widely respected experts from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, and South America. They represent a cross-section of professions, many with academic and medical prominence supported by their direct involvement at the very forefront of the war against pandemic outbreaks, several knowing the personal and operational challenges involved with counter-pandemic responses. All involved are active in their respective fields and offer practical, real-world expertise based on hands-on work at the "front lines," providing profound, first-hand knowledge and recommendations for best practices. The opinions, often highly personal and perhaps even controversial, are based as much on theoretical considerations as on their extensive personal and highly insightful experience. As such, The Nature of Pandemics offer a multifaceted insight into problems that, if ignored initially, come to mar all subsequent response and mitigation efforts. The approach is rigorously intellectual and, in a field that often evokes passions, is equally rigorously dispassionate. It has to be so: in the modern world of pandemics "past is the prologue." Coverage provides solutions in developing readiness and mobilizing response to the current pandemic, and future ones.
Beschreibung:	xxiv, 446 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781032340609 9781138048300