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EcoHealth ONE: Forging Collaboration between Ecology and Health

Author: Jonathan A. Patz

Published in: EcoHealth | Issue 1/2006

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Repeatedly these days, we read about newly emergent diseases or public health catastrophes, from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza to the 2003 European heatwave and 2005 Hurricane Katrina. New diseases have always cropped up throughout history, especially since the age of modern agriculture, which brought about a major shift in our societal practices and personal behaviors. Thus, in some ways, these new health threats are not new; but are they occurring at an accelerating frequency? Many would argue that indeed they are, and this begs the question, why? …
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Title
EcoHealth ONE: Forging Collaboration between Ecology and Health
Author
Jonathan A. Patz
Publication date
01-03-2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
EcoHealth / Issue 1/2006
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Electronic ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-005-0011-7

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