Clear-Cutting Disease Control : Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection
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Rodrick Wallace, Luis Fernando Chaves, Luke R. Bergmann, Constância Ayres, Lenny Hogerwerf, Richard Kock, Robert G. Wallace.
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The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity. By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks. Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity are being drastically streamlined by both agribusiness-led deforestation and deficits in public hea…
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- Wallace, Rodrick
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- Chaves, Luis Fernando
- Bergmann, Luke R.
- Ayres, Constância
- Hogerwerf, Lenny
- Kock, Richard
- Wallace, Robert G.
- Responsibility
- Rodrick Wallace, Luis Fernando Chaves, Luke R. Bergmann, Constância Ayres, Lenny Hogerwerf, Richard Kock, Robert G. Wallace
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 68 p.) : 14 illus., 5 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319728506
- 9783319728490 (print ed.)
- 9783319728513 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Communicable Disease Control - methods
- Communicable Diseases, Emerging
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Vectors
- Environmental Policy
- Forestry
- Models, Theoretical
- Abstract
- The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity. By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks. Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity are being drastically streamlined by both agribusiness-led deforestation and deficits in public health and environmental sanitation. Consequently, a subset of infections that once burned out relatively quickly in local forests are now propagating across susceptible human populations whose vulnerability to infection is often exacerbated in structurally adjusted cities. The resulting outbreaks are characterized by greater global extent, duration, and momentum. As infectious diseases in an age of nation states and global health programs cannot, as much of the present modeling literature presumes, be described by interacting populations of host, vector, and pathogen alone, a series of control theory models is also introduced here. These models, useful to researchers and health officials alike, explicitly address interactions between government ministries and the pathogens they aim to control.
- Contents
- The Social Context of the Emergence of Vector-Borne Disease -- Modeling Vector-Borne Diseases in a Commoditized Landscape -- Modeling State Interventions -- Implications for Disease Intervention and Modeling -- Mathematical Appendix.
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- e-Book
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Clinical Handbook of Air Pollution-Related Diseases
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Fabio Capello, Antonio Vittorino Gaddi. editors.
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This book examines in detail the clinical implications of those diseases that either are primarily triggered by air pollution or represent direct consequences of air pollutants. The aim is to provide medical practitioners with practical solutions to issues in diagnosis and treatment while simultaneously furnishing other interested parties with crucial information on the field. The book introduces the concept that air pollution-related diseases constitute a new class of pathologies. A wide range…
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- Capello, Fabio
- Gaddi, Antonio Vittorino
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- Fabio Capello, Antonio Vittorino Gaddi. editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 679 p.) : 116 illus., 79 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319627311
- 9783319627304 (print ed.)
- 9783319627328 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Air Pollution - adverse effects
- Environmental Illness - chemically induced
- Environmental Policy
- Global Health
- Public Policy
- Specialty
- Environmental Health
- Abstract
- This book examines in detail the clinical implications of those diseases that either are primarily triggered by air pollution or represent direct consequences of air pollutants. The aim is to provide medical practitioners with practical solutions to issues in diagnosis and treatment while simultaneously furnishing other interested parties with crucial information on the field. The book introduces the concept that air pollution-related diseases constitute a new class of pathologies. A wide range of conditions mainly attributable to air pollution are discussed, covering different body systems and pollution impacts in subsets of the population. In addition to presenting state of the art overviews of clinical aspects, the book carefully examines the implications of current knowledge for social and public health strategies aimed at disease prevention and prophylaxis. The Clinical Handbook of Air Pollution-Related Diseases will greatly assist doctors and healthcare workers when dealing with the consequences of air pollution in their everyday practice and will provide researchers, industry, and policymakers with valuable facts and insights.
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- 1. Pollution and Air Pollution–Related Diseases: An Overview -- 2. Physical and Chemical Properties of Airborne Particulate Matter -- 3. The Relationship Between Health Effects and Airborne Particulate Constituents -- 4. Environment/Climate Air Pollution -- 5. Spatial Distribution of Air Pollutants in Cities -- 6. Outdoor Air Pollution: Effects, Measure and Perception -- 7. Indoor Air Pollution -- 8. Air Pollution and the Health Preservation: The Point of View of a Clinician and of a Cardiologist -- 9. Legal and Ethical Implications of Air Pollution -- 10. Air Pollution in Infancy, Childhood and Young Adults -- 11. Air Pollution and Elderly -- 12. Pollutants and Drugs: Interactions and Human Health -- 13. Epigenetic Effects of Air Pollution -- 14. Complexity in Pollution/Disease Management -- 15. Air Pollution and the Nervous System: Diseases of the Brain Caused by Air Pollutants and Air Pollution -- 16. Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Diseases (Risk Factors and the Myocardial Cell Defence) -- 17. Air Pollution and Atherosclerosis -- 18. Air Pollution and Lung Diseases -- 19. Eye and Pollution -- 20. Skin and Air Pollution: State of the Art and New Frontiers -- 21. Air Pollution and Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals -- 22. Health Consequences Due to Prenatal Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical Exposure -- 23. Postnatal EDC Exposure and Prevention of Endocrine Disruption -- 24. Air Pollution and Cancer -- 25. Air Pollution and Gynecological Diseases -- 26. Air Pollution Effects in Pregnancy -- 27. Model for Pollutant and Disease Monitoring -- 28. Basic Principles for Treatment of Air Pollution-Related Diseases -- 29. Basic Characteristics of Antipollution Devices and PPE -- 30. Exploring the Technologies Behind Air-Cleaning Systems and Indoor Applications -- 31. Basic Characteristics of PPE (II): Industrial Applications -- 32. Sociological Theories on Air Pollution: Between Environmental Justice and the Risk Society Approach -- 33. The Contribution of Digital Sociology to the Investigation of Air Pollution -- 34. Basic Principles of Risk Communication in Air Pollution -- 35. Marketing Issues in Air Pollution Prevention -- 36. Air Pollution: Actions to be Taken -- 37. Conclusions.
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Towards Healthy and Sustainable Diets : Perspectives and Policy to Promote the Health of People and the Planet
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Sirpa Sarlio.
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This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment. The comprehensive coverage addresses myriad challenges and paradoxes (e.g., health-conscious food choices that put greater stress on the planet, hunger amidst plenty) associated with the production of sustainable, nutritious food. Direct and complex links between local and globa…
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- Sarlio, Sirpa
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- Sirpa Sarlio
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 85 p.) : 9 illus. in color
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783319742045
- 9783319742038 (print ed.)
- 9783319742052 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Environmental Policy
- Feeding Behavior
- Food Supply
- Healthy Diet
- Nutrition Policy
- Abstract
- This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment. The comprehensive coverage addresses myriad challenges and paradoxes (e.g., health-conscious food choices that put greater stress on the planet, hunger amidst plenty) associated with the production of sustainable, nutritious food. Direct and complex links between local and global issues are highlighted in innovative approaches to transforming food production from the farm to the table and from the policy desk to the real world. Chapters identify, examine, and offer realistic recommendations for achieving critical goals, among them: Supporting healthy people and communities within planetary boundaries Reduction and prevention of food waste Combining health and sustainability on the plate "Serving sustainable and healthy food to consumers and decision makers": from commitment to action. Investing in healthier and more sustainable production. Ensuring a healthy sustainable diet is a goal of all public policies. Towards Healthy and Sustainable Diets is geared toward professionals and policymakers dealing with food, nutrition, and environmental topics seeking new perspectives on longstanding issues in these interrelated areas. It also makes a suitable reference for students studying and conducting research in these areas.
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- 1. “Sustainability Is More than Reducing Greenhouse Emissions”: Different Perspectives on Sustainability -- 2. “When Enough Is Not Enough”: Our Food Systems Are Badly Out of Balance -- 3. “Insects, Aquaculture and Mycoproteins Instead of Beef?”: Choosing Healthy and Sustainable Meals -- 4. “Serving Sustainable and Healthy Food to Consumers and Decision Makers”: From Commitments to Action.
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Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health Through Community Planning
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43201
Beth Ann Fiedler, editor.
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This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss hunger and food sustainability, land use, chronic and communicable diseases, child mortality, and global water quality. Interventions described are varied as well, from green technology breakthroug…
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- Fiedler, Beth Ann
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- Beth Ann Fiedler, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 312 p.) : 30 illus., 27 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319753614
- 9783319753607 (print ed.)
- 9783319753621 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Environmental Policy
- Health Policy
- Public Health
- Social Planning
- Specialty
- Environmental Health
- Policy
- Public Health
- Abstract
- This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss hunger and food sustainability, land use, chronic and communicable diseases, child mortality, and global water quality. Interventions described are varied as well, from green technology breakthroughs to regulatory accountability, innovative urban planning and community policing programs. Chapters build and expand on each other's themes inspiring deeper understanding and critical thinking that further prompts readers to develop practical solutions leading to improvements in planetary and population health outcomes. Included in the coverage: The challenge of implementing macroeconomic policy in an increasingly microeconomic world; Green aid flows: trends and opportunities for developing countries; Planning healthy communities: abating preventable chronic diseases; Foundations of community health: planning access to public facilities; International changes in environmental conditions and their personal health consequences. Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health is developed for educators, students, and policymakers to generate awareness and review options to help create change in their communities. Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the EPA, and Housing and Urban Development will also find it salient.
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- 1. The Challenge of Implementing Macroeconomic Policy in an Increasingly Microeconomic World -- 2. Green Aid Flows: Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries -- 3. Food Sustainability Index Report on the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- 4. Planning Healthy Communities: Abating Preventable Chronic Diseases -- 5. A Regulatory Primer of International Environmental Policy and Land Use -- 6. A Regulatory Primer of United States Multisectoral Land Use and Environmental Policy -- 7. Foundations of Community Health: Planning Access to Public Facilities -- 8. Food Reservations at the Reservation? -- 9. The Buzz About Restoring Mother Nature at the Urban Core -- 10. Green Business: Not Just the Color of Money -- 11. Upstream Policy Recommendations for Pakistan’s Child Mortality Problem -- 12. Water Quality: Mindanao Island of the Philippines -- 13. International Changes in Environmental Conditions and Their Personal Health Consequences -- 14. Streetwise Community Policing to Inform United States National Policy.
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- e-Book
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