Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the div

This book summarizes current advances in our understanding of how infectious disease represents an ecological interaction between a pathogenic microorganism and

Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's techn

"Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. States of Disease advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrat