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Confronting Health Transition Complexity

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Dramatic changes in society, in technology and in the environment are conducting humankind to a new era of confrontation with death and disability and are favoring the emergence and dissemination of new pathogenic agents, broadening the spectrum of infectious diseases [1] [2].

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  1. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

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Marques, M.B. (1999). Confronting Health Transition Complexity. In: Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., Weyns, W. (eds) A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature. Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0856-3_8

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