Poverty, disease, and the ecology of complex systems.

Understanding why some human populations remain persistently poor remains a significant challenge for both the social and natural sciences. The extremely poor are generally reliant on their immediate natural resource base for subsistence and suffer high rates of mortality due to parasitic and infect...

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Main Authors: Calistus N Ngonghala, Mateusz M Pluciński, Megan B Murray, Paul E Farmer, Christopher B Barrett, Donald C Keenan, Matthew H Bonds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-04-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3972083?pdf=render