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Human ecology and public health
Stanislaw TarkowskiSchool of Public Health, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland.
Correspondence: Stanislaw Tarkowski, School of Public Health, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Sw. Teresy 8, 91-348 Lodz, Poland, e-mail: tarko@imp.lodz.pl
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Understanding patterns of health and disease requires that the focus in public health is not only on personal behaviours, biologic traits and specific risks but also on characteristics of the social and physical environments that shape human experience. At the end