Abstract Tony McMichael's 1999 essay,'Prisoners of the Proximate: Loosening the
Constraints on Epidemiology in an Age of Change', published by the American Journal of …

1.1 Introduction na fundamental sense, ecosystems are the planet's life-support systems-for
the human species and all other forms of life (see Figure 1.1). The needs of the human …

Public health thinking requires an overhaul. Tim Lang and Geof Rayner outline five models
and traditions, and argue that ecological public health—which integrates the material …

An ecological perspective on health emphasises both individual and contextual systems and
the interdependent relations between the two. Origins of this approach have emanated from …

Health, as both an expres and a component of human development, has to be seen in an
ecological way as 'the pattern that connects' and the radical and subversive nature of an …

Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are
increasingly impacting on the health of populations across the world. Diseases are crossing …

The intimate interdependence of human health and the ecosystems in which we are
embedded is now a commonplace observation. For much of the history of public health, this …

The environmental determinants of public health and social equity present many challenges
to a sustainable urbanism—climate change, water shortages and oil dependency to name a …

Two types of sustainability definitions are contrasted.'Social scientific'definitions, such as that
of the Brundtland Commission, treat sustainability as a relationship between present and …

Can people remain healthy in a world that is sick? Many ecological disasters can be directly
traced to careless exploitation of the environment, with human beings as first perpetrator and …