The changing face of disease : implications for society / edited by Nick Mascie-Taylor, Jean Peters, Stephen T. McGarvey.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2004.
Description
xvi, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Series
Society for the Study of Human Biology series ; 43 [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Emerging disease in the third epidemiological transition
  • Life history perspectives on human disease
  • The Evolution, transmission and geographic spread of infectious diseases in human populations: questions and models
  • Genetic epidemiology of parasitic diseases
  • Urban pollution, disease and the health of children
  • Protecting pregnant women from malaria
  • Interdisciplinary research on Schistosoma japonicum
  • Unravelling gene-environment interactions in type 2 diabetes
  • Investigating the "hidden" epidemic: sexual behaviour and representation of HIV/AIDS amongst business people and medical personnel in five Central and Eastern European nations
  • The Evolution of disease and the devolution of health care for American Indians
  • The Public's health: the changing role of public health
  • Human behaviour and the changing pattern of disease.
ISBN
0415322804 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004300576
OCLC
55072046
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