Infectious Diseases and Rural Communities
Special Issue of Rural Society
Volume 20 Issue 1 July 2010
112 pages ISBN 978-1-921729-00-3
Guest editors:
Thiru Vanniasinkam, Senior Lecturer and Andrea Crampton, Lecturer
Charles Sturt University School of Biomedical Sciences, Wagga Wagga NSW, Australia
In 2009 the world experienced its first pandemic in 40 years. Influenza A/H1N1/Swine flu captured the attention of the world, stretched its health care resources and tested political will. This special edition on Infectious disease and rural communities will focus on the effect of the H1N1 pandemic and other key infectious diseases on rural communities both within Australia and around the globe. This issue addresses topics such as:
* What impact did/does H1N1 (or other infectious diseases such as malaria or HIV) have on health care and social services in rural communities?
* What has been local government or health care responses to H1N1 and infectious diseases?
* How have communities responded to infectious disease? Does this vary by location, time, perceptions/involvement of key institutions' beliefs (i.e. education, religion, media, etc)?
* How does rural communities' preparedness for dealing with infectious and emerging disease epidemics fare? Is this similar/different from urban communities, and if so, why?
*Rural Society is a fully double-blind peer refereed journal published by eContent Management Pty Ltd, in association with the Institute of Land Water & Society and the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Published articles gain global exposure via indexing in Thomson-Gale databases including Web of Knowledge, EBSCO Host, ERIC and a range of aggregator databases. Rural Society is in the Register of Refereed Journals and is recognised for Australian government research data collection purposes.
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