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.