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Climate, Ecology, and Human Health
Category: For Educators, For Graduate Students
Resource Type: Web-Based
Date Posted: 11/16/2007

Environmental conditions, interacting with the biology of disease agents, can exert profound effects. Changes in how land is used affect the distribution of disease carriers, such as rodents or insects, while climate influences their range, and affects the timing and intensity of outbreaks. In this review we examine how our health is influenced by the interplay of social conditions, local environmental factors, and global changes. [Source: Consequences Vol 3(2)1997 (Funded by NOAA/NSF/NASA)] Grade level: 11-College.

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