Transitions in Human Health: Surviving This Millennium by Learning from the Past One Hundred Millennia |
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Authors: | Tony McMichael |
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Institution: | (1) London School of Hygiene, Tropical Medicine London, UK |
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Abstract: | We have been living through several decades of great and rapid changes in the human condition. Life expectancies increased
markedly during the twentieth century; populations are becoming 'older'; disease profiles are changing. The world is connecting
up economically and electronically, market forces have become increasingly dominant, the post-Cold War political landscape
has been transformed, cities are expanding rapidly, and material wealth is accruing — albeit unevenly. Meanwhile, however,
a range of large-scale environmental changes is occurring, of which the most apparent is global climate change. This reflects
a more fundamental process: the biosphere and its life-support systems are straining under the weight of human numbers, intensified
food production, escalating carbon-based energy use and the spread of mass consumption behaviours.
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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