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Unit 1:
Disease
Has a Changing Ecology--Background Information
Global Changes and Human Health
Is There a Geography to Human Health and Disease?
Nutrition
Infectious Disease
Chronic or Degenerative Disease
Psychosocial Disease
Genetics
Biometeorology/Bioclimatology
Environmental Contamination
Health Care Delivery and Access
Instructor’s Guide to Activities
Student Worksheets
Answers to Activities
Unit 2:
The
State of Health: Interactions in Place--Background Information
Introduction
Interacting Factors: Toward an Explanatory Framework
Population
Environment
Culture and Technology
Examples of Disease Ecology and Environment-Culture/Technology- Population
Interactions
The Demographic Transition
Population Mobility and the Demographic Transition
Changing Mobility and Environmental Change
Global Change and the Ecology of Water-Related Diseases
Water-borne Diseases
Water-unwashed Diseases
Water-based Diseases
Instructor’s Guide to Activities
Student Worksheets
Answers to Activities
Unit 3:
Unit 4:
Glossary
References
to All Units
Supporting Materials
Appendices
Appendix A: Additional Text Sources and Articles
Appendix B: Additional Data Sources
Appendix C: Useful WWW/Internet Links
Appendix D: Selected Readings
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Table 1: Incidence of Yukilosis in Tinytown
Table 2:
Contagious, Mobility-Related Diseases (1993)
Table 3:
Water-Related Diseases (1993)
Table 4:
Some Major Water-Related Diseases
Table 5: Ten Countries and the Demographic Transition
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Figure 1: Map of Tinytown
Figure 2: An
Explanatory Framework for Health and Disease
Figure 3: The
Demographic Transition
Figure 4: Population Pyramids
Figure 5: The
Indian Sub-continent
Figure 6: The
Spread of the Plague
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| AIDS |
acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| HIV |
human immunodeficiency virus |
| LDC |
lesser developed country |
| MDC |
more developed country |
| ORT |
oral rehydration therapy |
| TB |
tuberculosis |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
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