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Data on life expectancy show many countries clustered in high mortality traps
Date:10/10/2007

ng the engineering and health institutions responsible for clean water and sanitation.

Another article describes the success of a program in rural villages of Argentina that, by including the community, was able to create sustainable control of the parasite causing Chagas disease. A fourth article is an analysis of factors predisposing industrial workers in India to cardiovascular disease in which the critical importance of education to reduce tobacco use and hypertension is revealed.

All four papers in the special series, writes Dean Barry R. Bloom, "emphasize the importance of multisectoral approaches to providing sustainable solutions to complex health problems in developing countries -- public health, medicine, engineering, education and community engagement."

Sustainable health: A new dimension of sustainability science
Barry R. Bloom
PNAS 2007 104: 15969.

Bridges to sustainable tropical health
Burton H. Singer and Marcia Caldas de Castro
PNAS 2007 104: 16038-16043.

Mortality traps and the dynamics of health transitions
David E. Bloom and David Canning
PNAS 2007 104: 16044-16049.

Sustainable vector control and management of Chagas disease in the Gran Chaco, Argentina
Ricardo E. Gartler, Uriel Kitron, M. Carla Cecere, Elsa L. Segura, and Joel E. Cohen
PNAS 2007 104: 16194-16199.

Educational status and cardiovascular risk profile in Indians
K. Srinath Reddy, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Panniyammakal Jeemon, K. R. Thankappan, Prashant Joshi, Vivek Chaturvedi, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, and Farooque Ahmed
PNAS 2007 104: 16263-16268.


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Contact: Robin Herman
rherman@hsph.harvard.edu
617-432-4752
Harvard School of Public Health
Source:Eurekalert

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