Environment, Health and Population Displacement : Development and Change in Mozambique's Diarrhoeal Disease Ecology.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Ecology of Cholera and Bacillary Dysentery -- 2 Human Vulnerability to Cholera and Bacillary Dysentery -- 3 Epistemological Challenges and Health Ecology Research Methodologies -- 4 The Disease Environment of Beira, Quelimane and Gorongosa as Background to Incidence of Cholera and Bacillary Dysentery -- 5 Environmental Influences on the Distributions of Incidence of Cholera and Bacillary Dysentery in Quelimane, Beira and Gorongosa -- 6 Pattern and Process in Diarrhoeal Disease Incidence: The Role of Resettlement, Forced Displacement and Environmental Change -- 7 Socio-economic and Political Change and Incidence of Cholera and Bacillary Dysentery -- 8 Emergent Ecology of Disease and Health in Mozambique: Implications and Applications of a Geo-holistic Perspective -- Bibliography -- Index.

First published in 1998, this book contributes to our understanding of emergent and resurgent infectious diseases and health ecology in developing areas through detailed spatial and temporal analysis of recent cholera and bacillary dysentery epidemics in Mozambique.

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