Overview of How Ecosystem Changes Can Affect Human Health

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 291-299

  Confalonieri, U E C ^a   Effen, M A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Responsable de Salud del Programa Nacional de Cambio Climáticos   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Changes; Diseases; Ecology; Ecosystems; Ecotones; Environmental degradation; Health; Infections; Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888200344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00168-9     Document Type: Chapter

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