Impact: On the Frontlines of Global Health

by Karen Kasmauski, Peter Jaret, Lisa Lytton (Editor)

A richly illustrated overview of public health around the world examines the triumphs and failures in humankind's attempts to eradicate disease, discussing the factors that makes the world vulnerable to the spread of new or reemerging diseases--overpopulation, war, environmental destruction, and mass movement of refugees--as well as efforts to find creative solutions.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 21, 2003