Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but not with biodiversity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1722, 2017, Pages

  Wood, Chelsea L ^a,b   McInturff, Alex ^c   Young, Hillary S ^d   Kim, Dohyung ^e   Lafferty, Kevin D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Dilution effect; Disability adjusted life year; Global change; Infectious disease

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH IMPACT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INVESTMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBANIZATION;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISABLED PERSON; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBANIZATION;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISABLED PERSONS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85018720690     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0122     Document Type: Article

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