Interplay between environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty: Case studies in China

Acta Tropica

Volumn 141, Issue Part B, 2015, Pages 399-406

  Yang, Guo Jing ^a,b,c   Utzinger, Jürg ^d,e   Zhou, Xiao Nong ^b,f,g  

^a JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^g WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria Schistosomiasis and Filariasis   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Case study; Emerging diseases; Environment; Infectious diseases of poverty; People's Republic of China

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POVERTY;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AGRICULTURE; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD SAFETY; GREEN REVOLUTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POVERTY; RESEARCH PRIORITY; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ANIMAL; BIRD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENVIRONMENT; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

AVES;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84916882743     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.07.009     Document Type: Article

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