Urban ecology and health in the third world
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 cros...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1993.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 32. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45430457*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Human biological approaches to the study of Third World urbanism / L.M. Schell, M.T. Smith and A. Bilsborough
- Social and cultural influences in the risk [of] cardiovascular disease in urban Brazil / W.W. Dressler, J.E. Dos Santos and F.E. Viteri
- The urban disadvantage in the developing world and the physical and mental growth of children / F.E. Johnston
- Differences in endocrine status associated with urban-rural patterns of growth and maturation in Bundi (Gendi-speaking) adolescents of Papua New Guinea / B. Zemel, C. Worthman and C. Jenkins
- Nutritionally vulnerable households in the urban slum economy : a case study from Khulna, Bangladesh / J. Pryer
- Urban-rural differences in growth and diarrhoeal morbidity of Filipino infants / L.S. Adair, J. Vanderslice and N. Zohoori
- Child health and growth in urban South Africa / N. Cameron
- From countryside to town in Morocco : ecology, culture and public health / E. Crognier
- Urban-rural population research : a town like Alice / E. Beck.
- Selection for rural-to-urban migrants in Guatemala / H. Kaplowitz, R. Martorell and P.L. Engle
- Health and nutrition in Mixtec Indians : factors influencing the decision to migrate to urban centres / P. Lefevre-Witier [and others]
- Urban health and ecology in Bunia, N.E. Zaïre, with special reference to the physical development of children / J. Ghesquiere [and others]
- Food for thought : meeting a basic need for low-income urban residents / D. Drakakis-Smith
- Immunological parameters in northeast Arnhem Land Aborigines : consequences of changing settlement patterns and lifestyles / G. Flannery and N. White
- Amerindians and the price of modernisation / K.M. Weiss [and others]
- Sex ratio determinants in Indian populations : studies at national, state and district levels / A.H. Bittles [and others]
- Polarisation and depolarisation in Africa / J.I. Clarke
- Urbanisation in the Third World : health policy implications / T. Harpham.
