The identification by Kamphuis and colleagues of five specific HSP60 epitopes to which
children with pauciarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis have increased responses moves us …

This review is the second in a series on Indigenous health, covering different regions and
issues. We look briefly at the current state of Indigenous health in Latin America and the …

"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life
is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating …

This paper suggests that governments and international agencies must address the large and
often growing levels of inequality within most cities if health is to be improved and poverty …

The current study, using data from 374 African American students (59.4% female) in grades
7–12 attending a rural, southern county public school, addressed associations of self-efficacy…

OBJECTIVES To examine environmental exposure and incidence and mortality of cancer in
the village of San Carlos surrounded by oil fields in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. …

The Urban Management Program (UMP) represents a major approach by the United Nations
family of organizations, together with external support agencies (ESAs), to strengthen the …

In developing countries the level of urbanization is expected to increase to 39.5% by the
end of this century and to 56.9% by 2025. The number of people living in slums and shanty …

Oil companies have released billions of gallons of untreated wastes and oil directly into the
environment of the Ecuadorian Amazon. This cross-sectional study investigated the …

… Carolyn Stephens & Mike Ahern London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine … 1
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health and Policy, Environmental Epidemiology Unit …