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Une approche écoanthropologique de la santé publique

Alain Froment
- 01 Oct 1997 - 
- Vol. 5, Iss: 4, pp 5-11
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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.
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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.

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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

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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Studies of Modern Man

TL;DR: A review of studies in the physical anthropology of modern man concerns papers that have appeared in the period from mid-1969 to mid-1971 as mentioned in this paper, and aims to show how much activity there is in each major topic of investigation in the biological study of populations of man.