Social inequities and emerging infectious diseases

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  • Paul Farmer Universidad de Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rfnsp.898

Keywords:

Emerging Infectious Diseases, epidemiology, epistemology, interdisciplinary work

Abstract

The characteristics of the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID), and the advantages and limitations of their classification as a special category are described. Several analysis are proposed from the point of view of the
Critical Epistemology, trying to understand the surge of these diseases in the perspective of the social sciences. An interdisciplinary work is advised to focus on the problems related to the study of such phenomenon, to elucidate their complexity, and to know the distribution of their risk factors.
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2009-03-06

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Farmer P. Social inequities and emerging infectious diseases. Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública [Internet]. 2009 Mar. 6 [cited 2025 Mar. 4];19(2). Available from: https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/fnsp/article/view/898

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