... emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents.Simple logic suggests that climate can affect infectious disease patterns be-cause disease agents (viruses, bacteria, and other parasites) and ... of data to understand geographic patterns of disease (Jordanova, 1979; Riley, 1987).THE EARLY MERGER OF METEOROLOGY AND MEDICINEThe quests to understand weather, climate, anddisease all posed ... meteo-122Climate and Infectious Diseases:The Past as PrologueThe following review addresses the origins of environmental medicine and its legacy for our current understanding of climate and infectious disease...
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... health and disease. Through careful synthesis of disease conditions revealed inthousands of piecemeal studies and data systems, it construct-ed a comprehensive portrait of diseases, injuries, and ... accounts mapping health expenditures byage, sex, anddiseaseand injury causes (1998) and carried outan influential national burden of diseaseand risk factors study(1999). At the World Health ... Methods and Data 51Global and Regional Mortality in 2001 68Estimating Incidence, Prevalence, and YLD: Methods and Data 73Burden of Disability and Poor Health in 2001 85Global Burden of Disease...
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