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Multiple perspectives of public health through case studies and other research methods across prevailing indicators of behavior, culture, and environment with new insights and recommendations. The variety of topics will appeal to diverse readers interested in learning about a wider spectrum of problems and potential solutions.
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Enlighten readers to new dimensions in research indicators and innovative solutions to long-standing problems.
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Multiple subject matter experts across a wide spectrum of topics introduce, improve, or speculate on resolutions to long-standing problems ranging from the impact of culture on health care to the ill health effects of poor but persistent methods of health-related analysis.
Ms. Beth A. Fiedler
University of Central Florida
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This page is a summary of: Three Facets of Public Health and Paths to Improvements, January 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/c2018-0-04982-8.
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Infectious ecology: The basis for explaining discrete activation of pathogens
Existing strategies to understand, treat, and prevent infectious disease has limited effectiveness in relation to population health (e.g., limits of vaccine, antibiotic resistance, unexplained mutations) setting the stage for new strategies that embrace technological innovations and preventive strategies. Through the lens of infectious ecology, the discrete activation of pathogens and the infectious process is based on detailed analysis of the microorganism, the microbial community, and microbial environment in which adaptation can be monitored 1) providing a new pathway to assess triggers to harmful microbial disruption, and 2) suppress the activation of infectious processes. As a result, infection is viewed as a natural option of the adaptive process of the microorganism in which certain individuals of species are susceptible. Thus, understanding the natural and anthropogenic gradients of the microelement dynamics of the natural environment of microorganisms (ecotone) in the discrete activation of microorganisms in the ecological system (epigeosystem) is the main construct of infectious ecology. This methodology is key to addressing the numerous scientifically registered cases of a single infection of animals or the infection of a small number of animals described for tularemia and plague for which current science cannot define. In addition, S-Theory supports the infectious ecology approach to deciphering the manifestation of pathogenic microorganisms by including modern science (e.g. microgeography, nanocartography). Together, this methodology introduces new standards of ecological organization, definitions, and taxonomic units of geostationary research for the discrete activation of pathogens and the capacity to locate microbial hot spots. The process is successfully applied to the Advanced Space-Time Algorithm of Site Detection, known as the ASTA methodology, in which ASTA testing continues to achieve a high level of accuracy in determining these locations. To optimize this process, researchers must embrace infectious ecology (the adaptive properties of microorganisms and their natural communities) and S-Theory by recording empirical data using geostationary monitoring. Benefits include optimizing input from various scientific perspectives, elevating the status of geostationary research, and development of the concept of true preventive medicine by understanding the nature of microorganisms from a new ecological perspective to shed light on infectious disease.
A histography encouraging scientific research on infectious ecology
Existing epidemiological approach to infection has numerous methodological flaws requiring the introduction of new strategies that embrace technological innovations and preventive strategies versus historical disease analysis conducted after the fact. GAP: epidemiology limits of vaccines and antibiotic development. Infectious Ecology can overcome existing limits to understanding the activation of deadly pathogens by 1) providing a new pathway to assess triggers to harmful microbial disruption, and 2) suppress the activation of infectious processes.
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