Appendix A:  Additional Texts and Articles
 

The following citations are a sample of texts and articles that may be useful as additional background information for instructors or
students.  This list is not exhaustive.

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Human Health and Global Change 


Clayton, Patti, William Glaze, and Richard Andrews.  1990.  Environmental Impact Assessment Review 10,4 (December).  Special Issue.  Environmental change and public health:  The next fifty years.

Colwell, Rita.  1996.  Global climate and infectious disease:  The cholera paradigm.  Science 274  (20 December):  2025-2031.

Dowlatabadi, Hadi.  1996.  Assessing the health impacts of climate change.  Degrees of Change 1, 6 (September):  1-4.

Epstein, Paul.  1997.  Environmental changes and human health.  Consequences 3,2.

Hall, Ross.  1990.  Health and the global environment.  Cambridge:  Polity Press.

Longstreth, Janice.  1991.  Anticipated public health consequences of global climate change.   Environmental Health Perspectives 96: 139-144.

Martens, W., T. Jetten, J. Rotmans, and L. Niessen.  1995.  Climate change and vector-borne diseases:  A global modeling perspective.  Global Environmental Change 5, 3:  195-209.

McMichael, Anthony.  1993.  Planetary overload:  Global environmental change and the health of the human species.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

Murray, Christopher and Alan Lopez. 1996. Evidence-based health policy -- Lessons from the global burden of disease study. Science 274 (1 November): 740-743.

Real, Leslie.  Sustainability and the ecology of infectious disease.  1996.  Bioscience 46, 2  (February):  88-97.

Sanderson, George.  1992.  Climate change:  The threat to human health.  The Futurist 26, 2:  34- 38.

Stone, Richard.  1995.  If the mercury soars, so may health hazards.  Science 267 (17 February):  957-958.

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Emergent Diseases 


Garnett, Geoffrey and Edward Holmes.  1996.  The ecology of emergent infectious disease.   Bioscience 46,2:  135.

Garrett, Laurie. 1994. The coming plague.: Newly emergent diseases in a world out of balance.  New York: Penguin Books.

Gould, Peter. 1993. The slow plague: A geography of the AIDS pandemic.  New York, NY: Blackwell.

Shilts, Randy.  1987.  And the band played on:  Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.  New  York:  St. Martin’s Press.

Wilson, Mary, Richard Levins, and Andrew Spillman, eds.  1994.  Disease in evolution:  Global changes and emergence of infectious diseases.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 740, December 15.
 
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Equity, Justice, and Human Health Hazards 


Bowen, William, Mark Salling, Kingsley Haynes, and Ellen Cyran. 1995. Toward environmental justice:  Spatial equity in Ohio and Cleveland. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, 4 (December): 641-663.

Bryant, Bunyan and Paul Mohai, eds. 1992. Race and the incidence of environmental hazards. Boulder, CO:  Westview Press.

Bullard, Robert. 1993. Confronting environmental racism:  Voices from the grassroots. Boston, MA:  South End Press.

________. 1990. Dumping in Dixie:  Race, class, and environmental quality. Boulder, CO:  Westview Press.

Goldman, Benjamin. 1991. The truth about where you live:  An atlas for action on toxins and mortality.  New York:  Random House.

Medoff, Peter and Holly Sklar.  1994. Streets of hope: The fall and rise of an urban neighborhood.  Boston, MA:  South End Press.

Szasz, Andrew. 1994. EcoPopulism:  Toxic waste and the movement for environmental justice.  Minneapolis, MN:  University of Minnesota Press.

United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice. 1987. Toxic waste and race in the United States.  New York, NY: United Church of Christ.

United States General Accounting Office. 1983. Siting of hazardous waste landfills and their correlation with racial and economic status of surrounding communities.  Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
 
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Health Care Access 


Fosu, Gabriel.  1989.  Access to health care in urban areas of developing societies.  Journal of Health and Social Behavior 30 (December): 398-411.

Gesler, Wilbert.  1984.  Health care in developing countries.  State College, PA:  Commercial  Printing.

Hardoy, Jorge, Sandy Cairncross, and David Satterthwaite.  1990.  The poor die young:  Housing  and health in Third World cities.  London:  Earthscan Publications Ltd.
 
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Medical Geography 


Meade, Melinda S., John W. Florin, and Wilbert M. Gesler.  1988. Medical geography.  New York: Guilford Press.
 
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International Health Issues and the North-South Divide 


Mosley, W. Henry and Peter Cowley.  1991.  The challenge of world health.  Population Bulletin  46, 4.  Washington, DC:  Population Reference Bureau, Inc.

Pan American Health Organization.  1992.  International health:  A north-south debate.   Washington, DC:  PAHO.

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