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Health Without Borders : Epidemics in the Era of Globalization by Paolo Vineis (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our environment is changing rapidly, with tremendous consequences for our health. These changes produce complex and constantly varying interactions between the biosphere, economy, climate and human health, forcing us to approach future global health trends from a new perspective. Preventive actions to improve health, especially in low-income countries, are essential if our future is going to be a sustainable one. After a period of undeniable improvement in the health of the world’s population, this improvement is likely to slow down and we will experience– at least locally – crises of the same magnitude as have been observed in financial markets since 2009. There is instability in health systems, which will worsen if preventive and buffering mechanisms do not take on a central role. We cannot exclude the possibility that the allied forces of poverty, social inequalities, climate change, industrial

Who reads Health Without Borders : Epidemics in the Era of Globalization?

Author

Paolo Vineis (auth.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319524450

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Medical, Mathematics