Addressing vulnerability, building resilience: community-based adaptation to vector-borne diseases in the context of global change

KL Bardosh, SJ Ryan, K Ebi, S Welburn… - Infectious diseases of …, 2017 - Springer
Background The threat of a rapidly changing planet–of coupled social, environmental and
climatic change–pose new conceptual and practical challenges in responding to vector …

Tick-borne pathogens and diseases in Greece

A Efstratiou, G Karanis, P Karanis - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are recognized as a serious and growing public health
epidemic in Europe, and are a cause of major losses in livestock production worldwide. This …

Spatial trend, environmental and socioeconomic factors associated with malaria prevalence in Chennai

DS Kumar, R Andimuthu, R Rajan, MS Venkatesan - Malaria journal, 2014 - Springer
Background Urban malaria is considered to be one of the most significant infectious
diseases due to varied socioeconomic problems especially in tropical countries like India …

Growing water insecurity and dengue burden in the Americas

AS Akanda, K Johnson - The Lancet Planetary Health, 2018 - thelancet.com
Dengue virus, a vector-borne virus spread predominantly by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is
present in over 124 countries with a total population of about 2· 5 billion people. 1 Dengue is …

Climate, environmental health vulnerability, and physical planning: A review of the forecasting literature

J Rosen - Journal of Planning Literature, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Climate change is expected to alter human health in important ways, with significant
regional variations. To understand these effects, I review the climate change health …

Predicting Pro-Government Militia Activity: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis

NOA Abdelrahman - 2017 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation investigates the conditions that prompt governments to devolve security
functions, often surreptitiously, to privately operated militias whose activities they cannot fully …

[PDF][PDF] A right to universal health coverage in Nigeria?: a transformative proposal from a comparative perspective

U Ngwaba - 2017 - figshare.mq.edu.au
Building on the work of Robert Alexy, this chapter develops a framework for the right to
health as a set of legal positions1 to universal health coverage that can lead to significant …

International political economy and political demography: An interdisciplinary exploration

K Kang, T Kugler - Advancing Interdisciplinary Approaches to International …, 2017 - Springer
The authors of this chapter seek to further our knowledge of economic growth, change and
conflict. They build a general model that offers a new perspective on politics. It shows that …

A RS/GIS-Based System for Monitoring Malaria Epidemic

L Sun, ZS Zhu - Advanced Materials Research, 2013 - Trans Tech Publ
This system essentially implements the information from RS and GIS associated with malaria
epidemic modeling, and increases precision of malaria epidemic modeling by the …

An Images-Fusion Method of Malaria Epidemic Remote Sensing

L Sun, ZS Zhu - Advanced Materials Research, 2013 - Trans Tech Publ
This paper addressed the problem of improving precision of malaria epidemic remote
sensing by developing optimum image-fusion system, which analyses the implementation of …