The human environment interface: Applying ecosystem concepts to health

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 365, Issue , 2013, Pages 83-100

  Preston, Nicholas D ^a   Daszak, Peter ^a   Colwell, Rita R ^b  

^a ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; PHOSPHORUS; TOXIN;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOSPHERE; CHOLERA; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD WEB; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MALARIA; MICROCLIMATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOOSE; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLE; ONE HEALTH APPROACH; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNECOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WOLF; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84892715542     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82-2013-317     Document Type: Article

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