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Health impacts of epidemiological environment change: measurement issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Joses Kirigia
Joses Kirigia
Affiliation:
Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa
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Abstract

Epidemiological environment (EE) could be denned as a set of conditions and processes, both physical and social, that influence the interaction between human beings and disease agents. The human epidemiological environment is shaped by various aspects of development and global change, viz. the influences of human population size, mobility, geographic distribution, urbanization, and nutrition status; modernization (macro-and microeconomic enterprise); loss of indigenous medicinal knowledge; microbial evolution of antibiotic resistance; land conversion and biodiversity loss; agricultural intensification; stratospheric ozone depletion; and climatic change (Daily and Ehrlich, 1995). Health status is affected greatly not only by economic development (e.g. by policies influencing per capita income and its distribution), but also through changes in EE.

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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1996 , pp. 359 - 367
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Copyright © 1996, Cambridge University Press

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