[Infectious diseases and population assistance: general issues].
Actually the infectious diseases are a predominant cause of morbidity and mortality in limited resource countries and, of course, not unimportant in industrialized countries where the social phenomena of immigration and increased internal and international mobility of people may facilitate the reemergence of infectious diseases considered overcome. It is becoming more and more important to consider the actual role of assistance of people for infectious diseases: a careful consideration needing of concretes example for becoming medical practices and social languages appropriates to the local context and useful for promoting more efficacious cares and prevention of infectious diseases.
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Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.
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D002163:Cameroon; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004190:Disasters; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control; D007391:International Cooperation; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D012011:Red Cross; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013188:Sri Lanka; D014611:Vaccination; D014944:World Health Organization