Impact : dispatches from the front lines of global health / photographs by Karen Kasmauski ; text by Peter Jaret.

Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [2003], ©2003.

240 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm

Includes index.

I. The state of the world's health -- II. Symptoms of change : Population ; Lifestyle ; Alzheimer's: a family tragedy ; Borders ; Political and social upheaval ; Environmental disruption ; AIDs ; AIDs: one woman's story -- III. Meeting the challenge : Clean water, safe food ; Empowering women ; Woman to woman ; Vaccines ; Genetics ; Healthy aging.