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How Urbanization is Shaping Infectious Disease Patterns


Urbanization and Infectious Diseases: General Principles, Historical ...

With greater contact between infected and uninfected individuals, the opportunity for infections to spread increases. Urbanization necessarily provides more ...

How Urbanization is Shaping Infectious Disease Patterns - LinkedIn

Infectious diseases thrive in environments where large populations live in close proximity, often with inadequate sanitation and healthcare ...

Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease

Contemporary patterns of extended urbanisation fundamentally shift the vulnerability of cities to infectious diseases in ways that differ from those that ...

On the Scaling Patterns of Infectious Disease Incidence in Cities

Urban areas with larger and more connected populations offer an auspicious environment for contagion processes such as the spread of pathogens.

Impact of urban structure on infectious disease spreading - Nature

The way in which human mobility affects an epidemic progression is by regulating the population mixing patterns. This is not only an important ...

How Urbanization is Shaping Infectious Disease Patterns - LinkedIn

Urbanization is reshaping how infectious diseases spread, as dense populations, inadequate sanitation, and high mobility create conditions ...

Understanding the role of urban design in disease spreading

Consequently, it influences the transportation choices of the population [17–19] and thus helps shape interaction networks through which ...

Urban-associated diseases: Candidate diseases, environmental risk ...

We found evidence for urban associations across allergic, auto-immune, inflammatory, lifestyle and infectious disease categories.

On the Scaling Patterns of Infectious Disease Incidence in Cities

Empirical evidence reveals a system- atic increase in the rates of certain sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) with larger urban population ...

Pandemic Urbanism | Think Global Health

The reach of the urban footprint, the acceleration of connectivity, and the particular conditions of urban life together create the conditions ...

Infectious disease in an era of global change - Nature

Climate change, rapid urbanization and changing land-use patterns will increase the risk of disease emergence in the coming decades. Climate ...

Pandemic urbanism: Emerging infectious disease on a planet of cities

The reach of the urban footprint, the acceleration of connectivity, and the particular conditions of urban life together create the conditions ...

Using urban landscape pattern to understand and evaluate ...

Their findings suggest that local regression techniques provide an understanding of how landscape pattern affect infection risk in city urban and suburban areas ...

Urbanization and humidity shape the intensity of influenza ... - Science

... cities drive patterns in epidemic intensity at different scales of observation (29). ... infectious disease dynamics. As has recently been ...

1 Introduction | Urbanization and Slums: Infectious Diseases in the ...

As the world becomes increasingly urbanized and interconnected, infectious diseases—both existing and emerging—pose a serious and rapidly escalating threat to ...

Dynamics of influenza‐like illness under urbanization procedure ...

Of the most impacting factors, urbanization has been suggested as shaping the intensity of influenza epidemics. Besides, growing evidence ...

Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but ...

The importance of urbanization and wealth helps to explain why most infectious diseases have become less burdensome over the past three decades, ...

(PDF) Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease

We thus call for future research on the spatialities of health and disease to pay attention to how variegated patterns of extended urbanisation ...

Whether Urbanization Has Intensified the Spread of Infectious ...

The empirical study shows that the population increase brought by urbanization does not aggravate the spread of infectious diseases.

Economic growth, urbanization, globalization, and the risks of ...

What makes the changing pattern of meat consumption significant for infectious disease transmission in China is a persisting social preference for live and ...