Health in Ecological Perspectives in the Anthropocene

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Watanabe, Toru (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Watanabe, Chiho (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Environmental health.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Health promotion.; Sustainable development.; Climate change.; Environmental Health.; Urban Ecology.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Water and Health.; Sustainable Development.; Climate Change Management and Policy.

This book focuses on the emerging health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the situation in developing countries. Thanks to recent development in the areas of remote sensing, GIS technology, and downscale modeling of climate, it has now become possible to depict and predict the...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Ecohealth and human ecology as underlying theoretical background
• Chapter 2: Health impact of urban physicochemical environment considering the mobility of the people
• Chapter 3: Population mobility modeling based on call detail records of mobile phones for heat exposure assessment in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Chapter 4: Air pollution and children's health: Living in urban areas in developing countries
• Chapter 5: Statistical Analysis on Geographical Condition of Malaria Endemic area: A Case of Laos Savannakhet Province
• Chapter 6: Ecohealth Approach to Longevity Challenges in Anthropocene: A Case of Japan
• Chapter 7: Importance of appropriate and reliable population data in developing regions to understand epidemiology of diseases
• Chapter 8: Access to health care in Sub-Saharan Africa: challenges in a changing health landscape in a context of development
• Chapter 9: Health risk assessment for planning of a resilient city in the changing regional environment
• Chapter 10: An Ecological Context towards Understanding Dengue Disease Dynamics in Urban Cities: A Case Study in Metropolitan Manila, Philippines
• Chapter 11: Floods and foods as potential carriers of disease between urban and rural areas
• Chapter 12: Flood and Infectious Disease Risk Assessment.