Disease and Urbanization Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society Series

Originally published in 1980, this book focusses attention on various aspects of disease ecology. A series of contrasts appear, between urban and rural, temperate and tropical, and affluent and poor communities. These socio-geographical contrasts are related to a further dichotomy between infectious (usually acute) diseases, and non-infectious (usually chronic) ones. The first part of the book is largely concerned with infectious disease, such as malaria and gastroenteritis, in rural/tropical/poor communities. The second discusses the often-antithetical combination of chronic disease in urban/temperate/affluent populations.

1. Ecological Factors in Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever 2. From Malaria Eradication to Malaria Control 3. Ecological Factors in Gastroenteritis 4. Nutrition and Infectious Disease 5. Modelling the Transmission of Rabies P. Armitage 6. Urbanization and Stress 7. The Ecology of Chronic Lung Disease 8. Ecological Factors in Multiple Sclerosis in North-East Scotland 9. International and Urban-Rural Variation in Cancer 10. Affluence, Urbanization and Coronary Heart Disease 11. Social Class and Disease.

E. J. Clegg and J. P. Garlick