Une approche écoanthropologique de la santé publique
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The article demonstrates the need for future public health policies to take new geographic and ecological concepts, such as the pathogenic complex, epidemiological landscape or pathocenosis, need to be integrated into the medical reasoning process.About:
This article is published in Natures Sciences Sociétés.The article was published on 1997-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 8 citations till now.read more
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GIS, geostatistics, metadata banking, and tree-based models for data analysis and mapping in environmental monitoring and epidemiology
TL;DR: By the example of environmental monitoring, some applications of geographic information systems, geostatistics, metadata banking, and Classification and Regression Trees (CART) are presented and a corresponding strategy for the detection of vector hot spots in medical epidemiology is recommended.
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From foraging to farming among present-day forest hunter-gatherers: consequences on diet and health
Edmond Dounias,Alain Froment +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the "paleodiet" as a benchmark for present-day efforts to promote health and prevent nutritional diseases, even in industrialized countries, and describe how forest dwellers have adapted to permanent changes of forest ecosystems that are dynamic.
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Biodiversity and emerging diseases.
TL;DR: The importance of preserving biodiversity mainly in the wildlife ecosystems as an integrated and sustainable approach among others in order to prevent and control the emergence or reemergence of diseases in animals and humans (zoonosis).
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Combiner analyse spatiale et épidémiologie pour l'aide à la décision dans la lutte contre la tuberculose en Guyane française
TL;DR: In this article, a systeme d'Information Geographique permet ensuite de cartographier les populations a risque de tuberculose sur l'Ile de Cayenne.
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Resolution of cultural and biological inheritance by path analysis
TL;DR: Analysis of family resemblance is developed in terms of three genetic parameters, six parameters for cultural inheritance, and one parameter for an index estimating family environment, and performance of the model is satisfactory on simulated data with extreme gene-environment interaction.
The Health of Traditional Societies and the Effects of Acculturation
TL;DR: It is argued that isolated traditional societies are well adapted to their environments and that their members are healthy and well nourished and that after prolonged contact with the industrialized world, their adaptation becomes disrupted and their health jeopardized.
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Adaptive significance of small body size under poor socio‐economic conditions in southern Peru
TL;DR: It is postulated that the greater offspring survival effectiveness associated with small parental body size may reflect possible adaptive responses to poor socio-economic conditions.
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Préliminaires d'une étude historique des maladies
TL;DR: The importance of the pathologique represente un fait banal as discussed by the authors, i.e., l'importance of pathologiques represente a fait that represents a triviality.
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The Health of Traditional Societies and the Effects of Acculturation [and Comments and Replies]
Rolf Wirsing,Michael H. Logan,Marc S. Micozzi,David Ondieki Nyamwaya,Tola Olu Pearce,Domeena C. Renshaw,Otto Schaefer +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that isolated traditional societies are well adapted to their environments and that their members are healthy and well nourished, and that permanent intrusions into their environments by representatives of the industrialized world are deleterious to the health of these groups because of the sudden breakdown of their geographic isolation, the growing instability of their group sizes due to migration, epidemics, reduction of the complexity and diversity of the surrounding fauna and flora, and the in...