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Water-borne diseases are the major contributing factors of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. Despite technological innovations with regard to development of new drugs, diagnostic techniques, vaccines and several policy formulations, there is little evidence of reduction of disease burden. In this book, the authors argue that the lack of environment health perspective, domination of biological connotation along with the absence of integration and ...
Despite the existence of wide knowledge base, regarding role of environmental factors in occurrence of vector-borne diseases, its application in policy is insignificant. Hence, the developing nations witness high rates of morbidity and mortality, bouts of epidemics and resurgence of old/forgotten diseases. The book demonstrates convincingly that there is a need of systematic effort to address the deadly vector-borne diseases and actions followed by. The authors ...