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Megacities and global health / editors, Omar Khan and Gregory Pappas ; foreword by Ida Susser.
Holman Biotech Commons RA566.7 .M44 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban health.
- World health.
- Urban Health.
- Cities.
- Global Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Urban Health.
- Cities.
- Global Health.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : American Public Health Association, [2011]
- Contents:
- Conceptual framework : megacities and public health / Greg Pappas
- The urban ecology of megacities / David Vlahov
- Housing, crowding, migration : case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh / Omar Rahman
- Emerging infectious disease threats in megacities : case study of Brazil / Mary Wilson
- Developing health indicators for megacities : case study of the European Urban Health Indicator System (EURO-URHIS) / Arpana Verma
- Environmental and occupational hazards : case study of Karachi, Pakistan / Greg Pappas & Zafar Fatmi
- Forced displacement of African-Americans in New York City and the international diffusion of MDR-HIV / Rodrick Wallace
- Megacities and disaster preparedness / Irshad Shaikh & Greg Pappas
- Tackling health issues in a megacity : case study from London / Neil Blackshaw
- Emergency response : case study of NYC / Linda Landesman
- Suburbs of megacities : case study of Los Angeles / Dennis Andrulis, Najia Siddiqui
- Public health impacts of megacities and primary care responses / Omar Khan, Tom Peterson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780875530031
- 0875530036
- OCLC:
- 648080243
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