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Urban Ecology and Health in the
Third World Edited by |
This volume reports on the characteristics and biological effects of urbanisation in Third World cities. Several chapters describe the ecology of such cities and other urbanising places, to show exactly which physical and social features of cities may influence human health and biology. Other chapters investigate a wide variety of biological responses to features of urban ecology such as the frequencies of specific diseases, nutritional status, immunological characteristics, precursors of cardiovascular disease, endocrine levels, and patterns of child growth and development.
This important volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers and academics including human biologists, anthropologists, health care professionals, human geographers, urban and regional planners, and economists.
Table of Contents
| 1 | Human biological approaches to the study of Third World urbanism L. M. SCHELL, M. T. SMITH AND A. BILSBOROUGH |
| 2 | Social and cultural influences in the risk cardiovascular disease in urban
Brazil W. W. DRESSIER, J. E. DOS SANTOS AND F. E. VITERI |
| 3 | The urban disadvantage in the developing world and the physical and mental
growth of children F. E. JOHNSTON |
| 4 | Differences in endocrine status associated with urban rural patterns of
growth and maturation in Bundi (Gende-speaking) adolescents of Papua New Guinea B. ZEMEL, C. WORTHMAN AND C. JENKINS |
| 5 | Nutritionally vulnerable households in the urban slum economy: a case
study from Khulna, Bangladesh J. PRYER |
| 6 | Urban rural differences in growth and diarrhoeal morbidity of Filipino
infants L. S. ADAIR, J. VANDERSLICE AND N. ZOHOORI |
| 7 | Child health and growth in urban South Africa N. CAMERON |
| 8 | From countryside to town in Morocco: ecology, culture and public health E. CROGNIER |
| 9 | Urban rural population research: a town like Alice E. BECK |
| 10 | Selection for rural-to-urban migrants in Guatemala H. KAPLOWITZ, R. MARTORELL AND P. L. ENGLE |
| 11 | Health and nutrition in Mixtec Indians: factors influencing the decision
to migrate to urban centres P. LEFEVRE-WITIER, E. KATZ, C. SERRANO, AND L. A. VARGAS |
| 12 | Urban health and ecology in Bunia, N. E. Zaire, with special reference to
the physical development of children J. GHESQUIERE, E. NKIAMA, R. WELLENS AND P. DULIEU |
| 13 | Food for thought: meeting a basic need for low-income urban residents D. DRAKAKIS-SMITH |
| 14 | Immunological parameters in northeast Arnhem Land Aborigines: consequences
of changing settlement patterns and lifestyles G. FLANNERY AND N. WHITE |
| 15 | Amerindians and the price of modernisation K. M. WEISS, A. V. BUCHANAN, R. VALDEZ, J. H. MOORE AND J. CAMPBELL |
| 16 | Sex ratio determinants in Indian populations: studies at national, state
and district levels A. H. BITTLES, W. M. MASON, D. N. SINGARAYER, S. SHREENIWAS AND M. SPINAR |
| 17 | Polarisation and depolarisation in Africa J. I. CLARKE |
| 18 | Urbanisation in the Third World: health policy implications T. HARPHAM |
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