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Title Ecosystem change and public health : a global perspective / edited by Joan L. Aron and Jonathan A. Patz
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 480 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Part I: Approached -- Information on issues of global change / Erika G. Feulner -- Epidemiological study designs / Alfred A. Buck and Joan L. Aron -- Geographic information systems / Joan L. Aron and Gregory E. Glass -- Science/policy interface / Jonathan M. Samet -- Integrated assessment / Joan L. Aron, J. Hugh Ellis, and Benjamin F. Hobbs -- Part II: Environmental changes -- Human populations in the shared environment / Dennis C. Pirages, Paul J. Runci, and Robert H. Sprinkle -- Changing chemistry of Earth's atmosphere / Steven A. Lloyd -- Earth science perspective on global change / George W. Fisher -- Water resources management / Nicolaas J.P.M. de Groot -- Ecology and infectious disease / Mark L. Wilson -- Part III: Case studies -- Cholera and global ecosystems / Anwar Huq, R. Bradley Sack, and Rita R. Colwell -- Malaria and global ecosystem change / Joan L. Aron, Clive J. Shiff, and Alfred A. Buck -- Global climate change and air pollution: interactions and their effects on human health / Jonathan A. Patz and John M. Balbus -- Too little, too much: how the quantity of water affects human health / Les Roberts, Ulisses E.C. Confalonieri, and Joan L. Aron -- Stimulating inquiry: textbooks and information literacy in the internet environment / Erika G. Feulner -- Resource center / Erika G. Feulner
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Environmental health.
Biotic communities.
Public health.
Environmental Health
Ecosystem
Public Health
public health.
MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
Public health
Biotic communities
Environmental health
Form Electronic book
Author Aron, Joan L. (Joan Leslie)
Patz, Jonathan.
ISBN 0801874580
9780801874581