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Ecologies and politics of health /
"Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and inf...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in human geography ;
41. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Human health at the nexus of ecologies and politics / Kelley A. Crews and Brian King
- Part I. Health Within Social and Ecological Systems
- Positioning health in a socio-ecological systems framework / Kelley A. Crews
- Capitals and context : Bridging health and livelihoods in smallholder frontiers / Leah K. Vanwey, James R. Hull, and Gilvan Guedes
- Change in tropical landscapes : Implications for health and livelihoods / Kenneth R. Young
- Part II. Empirical Approaches to Injury and Infections Disease
- Buruli ulcer disease : The unknown environmental and social ecology of a bacterial pathogen / Jiaguo Qi [and others]
- The ecology of injuries in Matlab, Bangladesh / Elisabeth D. Root and Michael E. Emch
- Human settlement, environmental change, and frontier malaria in the Brazilian Amazon / Marcia C. Castro and Burton H. Singer
- Part III. Disease Histories, the State, and (Mis)management
- Vaccines, fertility, and power : The political ecology of Indigenous health and well-being in lowland South America / Kendra A. McSweeney and Zoe Pearson
- Tsetse and trypanosomiasis : Eradication, control, and coexistence in Africa / Paul F. McCord, Joseph P. Messina, and Carolyn A. Fahey
- Geographies of HIV and marginalization : A case study of HIV/AIDS risk among Mayan communities in western Belize / Cynthia Pope
- The mosquito state : How technology, capital, and state practice mediate the ecologies of public health / Paul Robbins and Jacob C. Miller
- Part IV. Health Vulnerabilities
- Exposure to heat stress in urban environments / Olga Williams, Alex de Sherbinin, and Mary Hayden
- Power, race, and the neglect of science : The HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa / Eileen Stillwagon and Larry Sawers
- Disease as shock, HIV/AIDS as experience : Coupling social and ecological responses in sub-Saharan Africa / Brian King
- Challenges and opportunities for future ecologies and politics of health / Brian King and Kelley A. Crews.