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Infecting ourselves : how environmental and social disruptions trigger disease
- Title
- Infecting ourselves : how environmental and social disruptions trigger disease / Anne E. Platt ; Tonje Vetleseter, research intern ; Jane A. Peterson, editor.
- Author
- Platt, Anne, 1969-
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Worldwatch Institute, ©1996.
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Details
- Description
- 79 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Infectious diseases account for more deaths than heart disease & cancer combined. The incidence of these diseases is rising because of ecological changes. What are we doing to ourselves?
- Series Statement
- Worldwatch paper ; 129
- Uniform Title
- Worldwatch paper ; 129.
- Subject
- Communicable diseases
- Medical geography
- World health
- Environmentally induced diseases
- Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
- Communicable Diseases > epidemiology
- Communicable Diseases > etiology
- Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
- Environmental Pollutants > adverse effects
- Global Health
- Communicable Diseases
- Topography, Medical
- Pays en développement
- Pays développés
- Pollution
- Maladies infectieuses
- Conditions sociales
- Communicable diseases
- Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
- Environmentally induced diseases
- Medical geography
- World health
- Epidemieën
- Milieuaantasting
- Bevolkingsdruk
- Leefsituatie
- Antibiotica
- Gezondheidseffecten
- Note
- "April 1996."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p.64-79).
- Contents
- The burden and challenge of infectious disease -- How social conditions speed up microbial traffic -- How environmental disturbances stimulate microbes -- Waterborne killers -- Wonder drugs no more -- Writing the prescription.
- ISBN
- 9781878071316
- 1878071319
- LCCN
- 96060361
- ZBWT00781289
- OCLC
- ocm34685660
- 34685660
- SCSB-350877
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library