Highways and outposts: Economic development and health threats in the central Brazilian Amazon region

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Barcellos, Christovam ^a   Feitosa, Patrícia ^a   Damacena, Giseli N ^a   Andreazzi, Marco A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Brazilian Census Bureau   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MALARIA; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO; PARA [BRAZIL];

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; TRAVEL; TREE;

BRAZIL; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL; TREES;

EID: 77953582956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-30     Document Type: Article

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