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Health of people, places and planet : reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding /
This book has three main goals. The first is to celebrate the work of a great public health figure, the late A.J. (Tony) McMichael (1942-2014). The second is to position contemporary public health issues in an interdisciplinary context and in ways that highlight the interdependency between the envir...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton ACT, Australia :
Australian National University Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Introduction
- Reprint A: Preface to 'planetary overload: global environmental change and the health of the human species'
- From silent spring to the threat of a four-degree world / Colin D. Butler and Alistair Woodward
- A long collaboration / Basil S. Hetzel
- Much said, much to be done / John Reid, Anthony G. Capon and Jane Dixon
- Reprint B: Prisoners of the proximate: loosening the constraints on epidemiology in an age of change / Anthony J. McMichael
- Part 2: Healthy workers
- Reprint C: Standardized mortality ratios and the 'healthy worker effect': scratching beneath the surface / Anthony J. McMichael
- Occupational stress / Su Mon Kyaw-Myint and Lyndall Strazdins
- A public health approach to environmental and occupational health problems in developing countries / Hülya Gül and Zahide Ceren Atli
- Tales of occupational cancer / Devra Davis and Colin D. Butler
- Part 3: Environmental and social epidemiology
- Reprint D: Port Pirie cohort study: environmental exposure to lead and children's abilities at the age of four years / Anthony J. McMichael, P.A. Baghurst, N. Wigg, G. Vimpani, E. Robertson and R. Roberts
- Environmental lead exposure and childhood development / Shilu Tong
- Shining light on human immunity / Robyn Lucas, Ashwin Swaminathan and Keith Dear
- Studying the Thai health-risk transition / Adrian Sleigh and Sam-ang Seubsman
- Climate change and environmental influences on Australia's population distribution / Graeme Hugo and Janet Wall
- Globalisation and the epigenetic landscape / Paolo Vineis
- Uses and misuses of epidemiology / Alistair Woodward
- Part 4: Nutrition and food systems
- Reprint E: Diet and cancer of the colon and rectum: a case-control study / John D. Potter and Anthony J. McMichael
- Monocultures: a blight on human and planetary health / John D. Potter
- Global food security, population and limits to growth / Colin D. Butler
- Reprint F: Social and cultural perspectives / Basil Hetzel and Anthony J. McMichael
- Eco-nutrition, ecosystems and health / Mark L. Wahlqvist
- Revisiting the 'urban bias' and its relationship to food security / Jane Dixon and Philip McMichael.
- Part 5: Climate change and health
- Reprint G: Global warming, ecological disruption and human health: the penny drops / Anthony J. McMichael
- Fragile paradise / Lachlan McIver and Elizabeth Hanna
- From social reform to social transformation / Hilary Bambrick and Stefano Moncada
- Climate change, health and well-being in Indigenous Australia / Donna Green and Leanna Webb
- The sociocultural context of climate change adaption in Australia, with a focus on hot weather / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Hilary Bambrick, Ferne Edwards and Tord Kjellstrom
- Archived newspaper reports as a complementary source of epidemiological data for research into climate change adaption / Colin L. Soskolne, Justine D.A. Klaver-Kibria, Karen M. McDonald, Donald W. Spady, J. Peter Rothe, Karen Smoyer Tomic, Kaila-Lea Clarke and Gian S. Jhangri
- Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies / Andy Haines
- From grass roots to government / Kathryn Bowen
- Part 6: Ecosystem change, infectious diseases and well-being
- Reprint H: Social and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases / Robin A. Weiss and Anthony J. McMichael
- Climate change, Ross River virus and biodiversity / Philip Weinstein and Peng Bi
- Detection and attribution of climate change effects on infectious diseases / Melanie Bannister-Tyrell, David Harley and Tony McMichael
- Patterns of ecological change and emerging infectious disease in the Australasian region / Ro McFarlane
- Biodiversity keeps people healthy / Pim Martens and Carijn Beumer
- A case study of urban trees, public health and social equity / Michael Bentley
- Reflections on the virulence of infections / Robin A. Weiss
- Part 7: Transformation
- Reprint I: The sustainability transition: a new challenge / Anthony J. McMichael, Kirk R. Smith and Carlos F. Corvalán
- Managing decline / Trevor Hancock
- Elemental Epidemiology / Martin McKee
- Freeing policy from the proximate / Devin C. Bowles
- You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there (Yogi Berra) / Kristie L. Ebi
- Climate change, violence, and the afterlife / Kirk R. Smith
- On the need to transform governance to regulation corporation for the survival of Homo Sapiens / Peter Tait
- Human habitat and health / Anthony G. Capon
- Transforming human society from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism / Bob Douglas
- Ecological public health / Geof Rayner and Tim Lang.