International Encyclopedia of Public Health

Kris Heggenhougen Editor-in-Chief:

Kris Heggenhougen
Department of International Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston
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Stella Quah Associate Editor-in-Chief:

Stella Quah
Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
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Editorial Advisory Board:

Barry Bloom
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
USA

Sissela Bok
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Cambridge, MA
USA

Rita Colwell
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
USA

Andy Haines
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London
UK

Gerald Keusch
Boston University Medical Center
Boston, MA
USA

Jeffrey Koplan
Woodruff Health Science Center
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
USA

Joshua Lederberg
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY
USA

Chitr Sitthiamorn
College of Public Health
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
Thailand

Paul Van der Maas
PO Box 2040
Rotterdam
The Netherlands

David Werner
HealthWrights
Palo Alto, CA
USA

Section Editors:

Hilda Bastian
Patient Information and Research, Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare, Koln, Germany

Stefan Beissert
Department of Dermatology, University of Muenster, Germany

Annette Braunack-Mayer
Department of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Australia

Kent Buse
Overseas Development Institute, London, UK

Guy Carrin
Department of Health Financing, Expenditure and Resource Allocation, World Health Organisation

Sally Caswell
Centre for Social and Health Outcome Research and Evaluation (SHORE), Massey University, New Zealand

Michel Coleman
Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Paul R. Epstein
Centre for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Valery L. Feigin
Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health Building, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Ken Fox
Erie Family Health Center & Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA

Jeffrey Griffiths
Tufts University School of Medicine, USA

James Harlan
ClinicalTrials.gov (National Library of Medicine), USA

Craig R. Janes
Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

Judith Justice
School of Medicine, UCSF, Berkeley, CA, USA

Japhet Killewo
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dares Salaam, Tanzania

Jonathan I. Levy
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

John Lynch
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

James Maguire
Harvard Medical School & Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA

Kenneth Manton
Centre for Demographic Studies, Duke University, NC, USA

Jonathan D Mayer
Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Terence O’Connor
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Mercy University Hospital, Ireland

Vikram Patel
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Stella Quah
Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

Wendy Rogers
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Wayne D. Rosamond
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Joshua A. Salomon
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

David Sanders
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Harald Siem
Head of Secretariat, International Health, Norwegian Directorate of Health

Michael Thun
Epidemiology and Survey Research, American Cancer Society, USA

Paul Van Look
Director, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organisation

Alistair Woodward
School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Derek Yach
Vice-President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo.

Anthony Zwi
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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