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Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection 2018 Edition
Contributor(s): Wallace, Rodrick (Author), Chaves, Luis Fernando (Author), Bergmann, Luke R. (Author)
ISBN: 3319728490     ISBN-13: 9783319728490
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $71.24  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Epidemiology
- Medical | Public Health
- Health & Fitness
Dewey: 613
Physical Information: 0.25" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.64 lbs) 68 pages
 
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The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.

By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks.

Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity are being drastically streamlined by both agribusiness-led deforestation and deficits in public health and environmental sanitation.

Consequently, a subset of infections that once burned out relatively quickly in local forests are now propagating across susceptible human populations whose vulnerability to infection is often exacerbated in structurally adjusted cities. The resulting outbreaks are characterized by greater global extent, duration, and momentum.

As infectious diseases in an age of nation states and global health programs cannot, as much of the present modeling literature presumes, be described by interacting populations of host, vector, and pathogen alone, a series of control theory models is also introduced here. These models, useful to researchers and health officials alike, explicitly address interactions between government ministries and the pathogens they aim to control.