The changing disease-scape in the third epidemiological transition

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 675-697

  Harper, Kristin ^a   Armelagos, George ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerative disease; Epidemiological transition; Globalization; Infectious disease

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; AVIAN TUBERCULOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLIMATE; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMINID; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INJURY; LACTOBACILLUS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LOUSE; MALARIA; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOISTURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PALEOLITHIC; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLEISTOCENE; POLLUTANT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TETANUS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TULAREMIA; VIRUS INFECTION; YELLOW FEVER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS;

EID: 77949689708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph7020675     Document Type: Review

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