Richard Levins
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Juan S, Awerbuch-Friedlander T, Levins R
Public Health Rev
. 2018 Feb;
37:11.
PMID: 29450053
Background: Ethnic density (the proportion of ethnic minority populations in a geographic area) has emerged as an important factor determining population health. By examining the relationship between mortality rates and...
2.
Ortiz M, Levins R
PLoS One
. 2017 Apr;
12(4):e0176163.
PMID: 28453548
Several administrative polices have been implemented in order to reduce the negative impacts of fishing on natural ecosystems. Four eco-social models with different levels of complexity were constructed, which represent...
3.
Yasuoka J, Jimba M, Levins R
Malar J
. 2014 Apr;
13:140.
PMID: 24713031
Background: Despite continuous efforts and recent rapid expansion in the financing and implementation of malaria control interventions, malaria still remains one of the most devastating global health issues. Even in...
4.
Factor R, Awerbuch T, Levins R
Health Place
. 2013 May;
22:90-7.
PMID: 23644393
Previous studies have shown that a community's socioeconomic status has a significant impact on its residents' health, and that vulnerability in deprived populations expresses itself as variability in health outcomes....
5.
Levins R
New Solut
. 2008 May;
18(2):121-8.
PMID: 18511390
As radical health professionals, we have the triple identity of workers, of activists, and of intellectuals that creates the cauldron in which we live contradictory lives. We share the concerns...
6.
Yasuoka J, Levins R
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
. 2007 Sep;
38(4):646-57.
PMID: 17883002
Mosquito-borne diseases are a major public health threat in Asia. To explore effective mosquito control strategies in rice ecosystems from the ecological point of view, we carried out ecological analyses...
7.
Coronary heart disease (CHD)--one or several diseases? Changes in the prevalence and features of CHD
Azambuja M, Levins R
Perspect Biol Med
. 2007 May;
50(2):228-42.
PMID: 17468540
In retrospect, mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the 20th century followed an epidemic pattern: mortality rates increased dramatically from 1920 until about 1960, remained roughly constant for almost...
8.
Godoy R, Goodman E, Gravlee C, Levins R, Seyfried C, Caram M, et al.
Econ Hum Biol
. 2007 Apr;
5(2):255-79.
PMID: 17420157
We compare blood pressure and hypertension between adult men on the USA mainland and in Puerto Rico born during 1886-1930 to test hypotheses about the link between cardiovascular health and...
9.
Yasuoka J, Levins R
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2007 Mar;
76(3):450-60.
PMID: 17360867
To clarify mechanisms linking deforestation, anopheline ecology, and malaria epidemiology, this study draws together 60 examples of changes in anopheline ecology and malaria incidence as a consequence of deforestation and...
10.
Levins R
New Solut
. 2007 Jan;
13(3):261-74.
PMID: 17208729
Critics of the precautionary principle assail it for calling for action before science establishes unquestionably that a substance causes harm. They claim theirs is the viewpoint of the "scientific method."...