philosophy, and dependence on multiple disciplines. The book’s introduction and fi rst chapter alone would provide a fi ne primer to begin the exploration of “what makes a population get healthier?” After this concise and clear context of eradication and its pursuit (eradicationism), the text then focuses specifi cally on eradication efforts and some key disease eradicators. Particular emphasis...

The association of Helicobacter pylori eradication with the occurrence of renal dysfunction in patients with peptic ulcer diseases is still unclear. This study aimed to clarify the relevance of H. pylori eradication to the occurrence of chronic kidney diseases in patients with peptic ulcer diseases. Data that were available from 2000-2011 were extracted from the National Health Insurance Resear...

Description Regional disease (schistosomiasis) was endemic for more than 400 years in an area spanning some 20,000 ha along three rivers, Kamanashi River, Arakawa, and Fuefuki River. The people living there suffered from this fatal disease characterized by swollen abdomen and abdominal ascites. Our regional eradication program was initiated when the regional leader of a village, Kasugai, Higash...

Malaria, a disease which was under control in the beginning of Juscelino Kubitschek government, became the most important endemic disease in 1958, when Brazil made a commitment with the World Health Organization to convert its control programs into eradication programs. For this purpose a Malaria Control and Eradication Group was set up under the leadership of the malaria specialist Mário Pinot...

Sustainable animal production requires a healthy production system including healthy animals producing wholesome products. Epidemiology as a discipline is concerned with the occurrence of disease or disease indicators in populations as well as with factors influencing disease occurrence. By providing this information, epidemiology contributes significantly to the development and maintenance of ...

The global health community pays renewed attention to evaluating the feasibility of elimination and eradication of certain communicable diseases [1,2] besides continuing to reduce the burden of ill-health. Eradication depends on both the availability of tools to interrupt transmission, the capacity of health systems to implement these solutions effectively across all populations concerned, the ...

Dracunculiasis, also named Guinea Worm Disease (GWD), is one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) caused by a parasitic nematode known as Dracunculus medinensis and has been known since antiquity as 'fiery serpent' from Israelites. It is transmitted to humans via drinking contaminated water containing infective copepods. Given, its feasibility for eradication, the Guinea Worm Eradication P...

In the present paper, we propose and analyze an eco-epidemiological model with diffusion to study the dynamics of rabbit populations which are consumed by lynx populations. Existence, boundedness, stability and bifurcation analyses of solutions for the proposed rabbit-lynx model are performed. Results show that in the presence of diffusion the model has the potential of exhibiting Turing instab...