Human ecology and public health

Public health ecology.

Prominent Human Health Impacts from Several Marine Microbes: History, Ecology, and Public Health Implications

This paper overviews several examples of important public health impacts by marine microbes and directs readers to the extensive literature germane to these maladies. These examples include three types of dinoflagellates (Gambierdiscus spp., Karenia brevis, and Alexandrium fundyense), BMAA-producing cyanobacteria, and infectious microbes. The dinoflagellates are responsible for ciguatera fish p...

Towards an ecology minded public health?

Public Health Perspectives on Water Systems and Ecology

P. Speldewinde Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia, Albany, Australia e-mail: [email protected] Abstract Human health is directly linked to ecosystem functioning, including the dynamics within wetlands. Wetlands can act to initiate or mitigate biological and chemical contamination. In order to assess the potential health risk, inve...

Human security and public health.

dedicated to the topic of human security within the context of public health. Human security and its relationship with health, social determinants, the Millennium Development Goals, and human rights are inseparable concepts that need to be understood in greater depth by public health researchers and practitioners as well as policymakers at all levels of government. Human security is an emerging...