Modern Environments and Human Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiological Transition

Written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts, Modern Environments and Human Health demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve longstanding questions about the second epidemiological transition. The first book to address the subject from a multi-regional, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspective, Modern Environments and Human Health is a valuable resource for students and academics in biological anthropology, economics, history, public health, demography, and epidemiology.

Keywords: Biological Anthropology, Modern Environments and Human Health, Molly K. Zuckerman, skeletal, archaeological, biodemographic, geochemical, environmental, epidemiological, cemetery, social history, and parasitological data, Studying the second epidemiological transition, The anthropometric history of India during the 19th and 20th centuries, exposure to influenza early in life