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Editorial
. 2020 Jul 17;5(4):e073.
doi: 10.1097/j.pbj.0000000000000073. eCollection 2020 Jul-Aug.

Fast and slow health crises of Homo urbanicus: loss of resilience in communicable diseases, like COVID-19, and non-communicable diseases

Tari Haahtela  1 , Josep M Anto  2 , Jean Bousquet  3   4
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Fast and slow health crises of Homo urbanicus: loss of resilience in communicable diseases, like COVID-19, and non-communicable diseases

Tari Haahtela et al. Porto Biomed J. .
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Both individual and community determinants create resilience in health crises.
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Human kind has evolved from natural environments, that is, from green (soil) and blue (waters), but is increasingly affected by cultural environment, that is, grey (urban) space.
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