Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7414-7419

  Bauch, Simone C ^a   Birkenbach, Anna M ^b   Pattanayak, Subhrendu K ^b,c   Sills, Erin O ^d,e  

^a Inter American Development Bank   (Brazil)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics   (Nepal)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Amazon Institute of People and the Environment   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon forest; Infectious diseases; Mining; Protected areas; Roads

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAZILIAN; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; HEALTH SERVICE; INCIDENCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKEMIA; MALARIA; MINING; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; BRAZIL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DIARRHEA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84935834522     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406495111     Document Type: Article

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