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Urban Ecology and Health in the Third World (Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series, Series Number 32) by Lawrence M Schell; Malcolm T Smith; Alan Bilsborough; Cambridge University Press is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume looks at the relationship between specific aspects of Third World cities and human health. Rapid and extensive urbanization of the less developed nations is perhaps the most dramatic demographic phenomenon of our times, but its impact on human biology is not well understood. Here, a cross-section of work is presented on this subject allowing human biologists, urban planners, public health workers and other specialists to assess our knowledge and the current approaches available to increase it. Contributions fall into two groups: studies of urban ecology including the social, economic and physical domains, and studies of biological responses to the urban environment. Health is not merely the absence of specific diseases, but is construed more broadly to include a wide range of biological parameters that are correlated with various states of sub-optimal health. These include patterns of child growth and development, frequencies of specific diseases, nutritional status, immunological characteristics and physiological parameters. This important volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers and academics, including human biologists, anthropologists, healthcare pr

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Author

Lawrence M Schell; Malcolm T Smith; Alan Bilsborough; Cambridge University Press

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511600494

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Sociology