Disease and Urbanization (Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society)

Originally published in 1980, this book focusses attention on various aspects of disease ecology. A series of contrasts appear, between urban and rural, temperate and tropical, and affluent and poor communities. These socio-geographical contrasts are related to a further dichotomy between infectious (usually acute) diseases, and non-infectious (usually chronic) ones. The first part of the book is largely concerned with infectious disease, such as malaria and gastroenteritis, in rural/tropical/poor communities. The second discusses the often-antithetical combination of chronic disease in urban/temperate/affluent populations. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Ecological Factors in Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever From Malaria Eradication to Malaria Control Ecological Factors in Gastroenteritis Nutrition and Infectious Disease Modelling the Transmission of Rabies Urbanization and Stress The Ecology of Chronic Lung Disease Ecological Factors in Multiple Sclerosis in North-East Scotland International and Urban-Rural Variation in Cancer Affluence, Urbanization and Coronary Heart Disease Social Class and Disease Author Index Subject Index Originally published between 1968 and 1989, this set presents a coherent body of information on the inter-relation between nutrition, health and disease in its social context. They examine various aspects of disease ecology relating socio-geographical contrasts to a dichotomy between infectious and non-infectious diseases.