Environmental change, development and vectorborne disease: Malaysia's experience with filariasis, scrub typhus and dengue

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 209-217

  Kwa, B H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dengue; Development; Ecological changes; Environment; Lymphatic filariasis; Malaria; Malaysia; Vectorborne disease

Indexed keywords

DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH POLICY; LAND USE CHANGE; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ACARI; ELAEIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 40049087051     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-006-9060-5     Document Type: Article

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