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Perspective Health and Urban Living
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Christopher Dye
The majority of people now live in urban areas and will do so for the foreseeable future. As a force in the demographic and health transition, urbanization is associated with falling birth and death rates and with the shift in burden of illness from acute childhood infections to chronic, noncommunicable diseases of adults.
Mayan calendar and 2012 prophecy. The third probable scenario
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