书目名称 | Health Without Borders | 副标题 | Epidemics in the Era | 编辑 | Paolo Vineis | 视频video | | 概述 | Describes future trends in the world population’s health status.Carefully argued study on the role of preventive mechanisms in order to improve health especially in low-income countries.Calls for coor | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 environment is changing rapidly, with tremendous consequences for our health. These changes produce complex and constantly varying interactions between the biosphere, economy, climate and human health, forcing us to approach future global health trends from a new perspective. Preventive actions to improve health, especially in low-income countries, are essential if our future is going to be a sustainable one. After a period of undeniable improvement in the health of the world’s population, this improvement is likely to slow down and we will experience– at least locally – crises of the same magnitude as have been observed in financial markets since 2009. There is instability in health systems, which will worsen if preventive and buffering mechanisms do not take on a central role. We cannot exclude the possibility that the allied forces of poverty, social inequalities, climate change, industria | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | global health trends; infectious diseases; epigenetic landscape; world population; climate change; enviro | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52446-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-52445-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-52446-7 | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |
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