'The gloomy forebodings of this dread disease', climate, famine and sleeping sickness in East Africa

Geographical Journal

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-195

  Endfield, Georgina H ^a   Ryves, David B ^b   Mills, Keely ^b   Berrang ford, Lea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate; Missionary archives; Sleeping sickness; Uganda

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPIDEMIC; FAMINE; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 70149106595     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: 14754959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2009.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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