Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach

ISBN-13: 9781891853517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 338 str.

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Opis

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the 20th century. Though the potential consequences of increased antibiotic and pesticide resistance are far reaching, regulatory efforts to address the problem are at a very early stage. This book aims to move discussions forward by presenting cutting edge research and a comprehensive application of economic tools to analyze how antibiotics and pesticides should be used to maximize their value to society.

O autorze

Ramanan is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC. His research includes the integration of epidemiological models of infectious disease transmission and the economic analysis of public health problems. He has worked with the World Health Organization on evaluating malaria treatment policy in Africa, and recently served on a National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine Committee on the Economics of Anti-malarial Drugs. He teaches international health policy in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and development economics at the Johns Hopkins University‘s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.