Health Without Borders : Epidemics in the Era of Globalization

• Main Author: Vineis, Paolo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Health promotion.; Epidemiology.; Medicine.; Health.; Statistics.; Environmental health.; Health economics.; Medical economics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319524467
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52446-7
• Physical Description: XV, 108 p. online resource.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our enviro...