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Forests and human health in the tropics: some important connections

Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Douglas Sheil, David Kaimowitz, Misa Kishi

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 2006 · 31 citations · 8 references

Concepts

Abstract

An overview of the state of human health in and around forests, and the causal links between forests and human health.

References

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Ecology and ethnomedicine: Exploring links between current environmental crisis and indigenous medical practices

Charles Anyinam · Social Science & Medicine · 1995 · 251 citations

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The Impacts of Forest Degradation on Medicinal Plant Use and Implications for Health Care in Eastern Amazonia

Patrícia Shanley, Leda M. Luz · BioScience · 2003 · 232 citations · Full text

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Health assessment for mercury exposure among schoolchildren residing near a gold processing and refining plant in Apokon, Tagum, Davao del Norte, Philippines

Hirokatsu Akagi, Erle S Castillo, Nelia P. Cortes-Maramba et al. · The Science of The Total Environment · 2000 · 134 citations

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Inherited burden of disease: agricultural dams and the persistence of bloody urine (Schistosomiasis hematobium) in the Upper East Region of Ghana, 1959–1997

John M. Hunter · Social Science & Medicine · 2002 · 79 citations

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Socioeconomic Differentiation and Body Morphology in the Surui of Southwestern Amazonia

Ricardo Ventura Santos · Current Anthropology · 1996 · 53 citations

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