Recently, vector-borne parasitic diseases such as leishmaniasis have been emerged or re-
emerged in many geographical areas and resulted in global health and economic concerns …

The dynamics of infectious diseases can be affected by genetic diversity within host
populations, species diversity within host communities, and diversity among communities. In …

The incidence of tick-borne diseases has increased in recent decades and accounts for the
majority of vector-borne disease cases in temperate areas of Europe, North America, and …

Climate warming and other environmental changes have contributed to the expansion of the
range of several tick species into higher latitudes in North America. As temperatures …

They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

The aim of this overview paper is to analyze the use of various landscape metrics and
landscape indices for the characterization of landscape structure and various processes at …

Impacts of environmental changes on zoonotic disease risk are the subject of speculation,
but lack a coherent framework for understanding environmental drivers of pathogen …

Causal thinking in public health, and especially in the growing literature on social
determinants of health, routinely employs the terminology of proximal (or downstream) and …

Human‐induced landscape change associated with habitat loss and fragmentation places
wildlife populations at risk. One issue in these landscapes is a change in the prevalence of …

Abstract Changes in the type and prevalence of human diseases have occurred during shifts
in human social organization, for example, from hunting and gathering to agriculture and …