Poverty, Disease, and the Ecology of Complex Systems

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Ngonghala, Calistus N ^a,b   Pluciński, Mateusz M ^c   Murray, Megan B ^a   Farmer, Paul E ^a   Barrett, Christopher B ^d   Keenan, Donald C ^e   Bonds, Matthew H ^a,f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Department of Economics Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^f PIVOT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAPITAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIDEMIC; FISHERY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUTRITION; PARASITOSIS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84900438973     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001827     Document Type: Article

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