Disease ecology : an introduction

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Author(s): Learmonth, Andrew
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
Year: 1988

Language: English
Pages: xii + 456 p.
City: Oxford
Tags: Epidemiology;Epidemiology

Part I One world or three to a pathogen?. Part II Western Diseases: Health in industrial and post-industrial countries
Mainly cartographic: the cancers
Mainly cartographic - some other atlas-based studies
Beyond cartographic - some geographical models I - the idea of "surfaces"
Geographical Models II - spatial diffusion of disease
Some further geographical contributions
Between two worlds - the historical geography of disease. PART III The Third World : Jacques May's classification and some "tropical" diseases
Malaria and some other mosquito-born diseases Some geographical contributions on the schistosomiases
Onchocerciasis or river blindness
Some Third World cancers
Is there a geography of hunger?
Approaches to regional synthesis
Ecological medical geography and other health geography, in retrospect and prospect.