UID:
almahu_9948233640202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511600494 (ebook)
Serie:
Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 32
Inhalt:
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 cross-section of work is presented on this subject allowing human biologists, urban planners, public health workers and other specialists to assess our knowledge and the current approaches available to increase it. Contributions fall into two groups: studies of urban ecology including the social, economic and physical domains, and studies of biological responses to the urban environment. Health is not merely the absence of specific diseases, but is construed more broadly to include a wide range of biological parameters that are correlated with various states of sub-optimal health. These include patterns of child growth and development, frequencies of specific diseases, nutritional status, immunological characteristics and physiological parameters. This important volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers and academics, including human biologists, anthropologists, healthcare professionals, human geographers, urban and regional planners, and economists.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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.
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9780521411592
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511600494
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