All hands on deck: Transdisciplinary approaches to emerging infectious disease
All hands on deck: Transdisciplinary approaches to emerging infectious disease
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DOI：
10.1007/s10393-005-8387-y
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发表时间：
2005-12-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Yassi, Annalee
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作者：
Parkes, Margot W.;Bienen, Leslie;Yassi, Annalee
世界各地新出现的传染病的负担日益加重，使我们面临许多挑战，包括必须设计与了解传染病发生的复杂社会和生态背景相适应的研究和应对措施。2005年3月，一群不同的科学家在夏威夷开会，讨论传染病出现的相互关联的社会和生态背景。会议的一个子集是一个小组，重点是“跨学科方法”，以整合跨学科和跨学科的知识，以改进对新出现的感染的预防和控制。本文是以该小组的讨论为基础的。在这里，我们概述了到目前为止主导传染病研究和控制的流行病学遗产，并介绍了新的、跨学科的和基于系统的方法在新出现的传染病中的作用。我们描述了四个跨界健康问题的案例，并利用它们来讨论在理解传染病发生的社会-生态背景和使用跨学科方法处理这些疾病方面的潜在好处以及固有的困难。
The increasing burden of emerging infectious diseases worldwide confronts us with numerous challenges, including the imperative to design research and responses that are commensurate to understanding the complex social and ecological contexts in which infectious diseases occur. A diverse group of scientists met in Hawaii in March 2005 to discuss the linked social and ecological contexts in which infectious diseases emerge. A subset of the meeting was a group that focused on "transdisciplinary approaches" to integrating knowledge across and beyond academic disciplines in order to improve prevention and control of emerging infections. This article is based on the discussions of that group. Here, we outline the epidemiological legacy that has dominated infectious disease research and control up until now, and introduce the role of new, transdisciplinary and systems-based approaches to emerging infectious diseases. We describe four cases of transboundary health issues and use them to discuss the potential benefits, as well as the inherent difficulties, in understanding the social-ecological contexts in which infectious diseases occur and of using transdisciplinary approaches to deal with them.