Urban ecology and health in the third world /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993. |
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| Description: | xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series 32 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1467591 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgement
- List of contributors
- 1. Human biological approaches to the study of Third World urbanism
- 2. Social and cultural influences in the risk of cardiovascular disease in urban Brazil
- 3. The urban disadvantage in the developing world and the physical and mental growth of children
- 4. Differences in endocrine status associated with urban-rural patterns of growth and maturation in Bundi (Gende speaking) adolescents of Papua New Guinea
- 5. Nutritionally vulnerable households in the urban slum economy: a case study from Khulna, Bangladesh
- 6. Urban-rural differences in growth and diarrhoeal morbidity of Filipino infants
- 7. Child health and growth in urban South Africa
- 8. From countryside to town in Morocco: ecology, culture and public health
- 9. Urban-rural population research: a town like Alice
- 10. Selection for rural-to-urban migrants in Guatemala
- 11. Health and nutrition in Mixtec Indians
- 12. Urban health and ecology in Bunia, N-E Zaire, with special reference to the physical development of children
- 13. Food for thought: meeting a basic need for low income urban residents
- 14. Immunological parameters in north-east Arnhem Land Aborigines: consequences of changing settlement patterns and lifestyles
- 15. Amerindians and the price of modernization
- 16. Sex ratio determinants in Indian populations: studies at national, state and district levels
- 17. Polarization and depolarization in Africa
- 18. Urbanization in the Third World: health policy implications
- Index
