One of the great successes in human society over the last few decades has been the increased proportion of the elderly. People in many countries can now expect to live into their 70s or 80s, if not longer. Despite concerns over pensions and so on, this is to be celebrated.
However, threats to longevity still persist. These threats include such Malthusian checks as floods and famine, drought and persistence of traditional disease vectors. But these are now compounded by such neo-Malthusian risks as global warming/climate change, global pandemics such as SARS, HIV/ AIDS and H1N1, and over-consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
The aims of this special issue are to explore the linkages between health, disease, environment and longevity in order to identify patterns, processes and policies of relevance to human society.
Topics such as, but not limited to, the following are welcomed:
- The persistence of Malthusian threats locally, nationally, globally
- The rise of neo-Malthusian threats, at different scales
- Linkages between factors of health, disease and longevity
- Health and disease modelling
- Policy development that might prove effective in meeting these and future threats
Receipt of papers: 31 May 2010
Peer review completed: 3 September 2010
Final drafts received: 26 November 2010
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