Urbanization and Infectious Diseases

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

This shift has been occurring over the past 100 years, with the most rapid rate of urban growth occurring over in the latter half of the twentieth century.

How urbanization affects the epidemiology of emerging infectious ...

The ever-changing environment of cities has made certain infectious diseases both emerge and re-emerge. Pathogens which adapt to urban ...

Urbanisation and infectious diseases in a globalised world

The UN predicts that the world's urban population will almost double from 3·3 billion in 2007 to 6·3 billion in 2050. Most of this increase will be in ...

Urban health - World Health Organization (WHO)

Infectious diseases like COVID-19, tuberculosis, dengue and diarrhoea thrive in poor and overcrowded environments and are closely related to ...

Whether Urbanization Has Intensified the Spread of Infectious ...

Population urbanization does not aggravate the spread of infectious diseases. This is because people rush to big cities to secure more job ...

Urbanization and Infectious Diseases - BioMed Central

This series will focus on better evidence of impacts of the urbanization process on various infectious diseases.

urban areas are ground zero for the transmission of emerging ...

Cities and pandemics: urban areas are ground zero for the transmission of emerging human infectious diseases · Studies have provided evidence of ...

Mapping the urban and rural planning response paths to pandemics ...

Intellectual agglomeration through urban development may lead to better medical standards, but a high-density urban environment may also lead to ...

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

Here we define UADs as: any disease that increases in prevalence or severity due to urban living or urban growth or is expected to increase due to future ...

Pandemic Urbanism | Think Global Health

Because the risks and mode of transmission of emerging and rapidly evolving pathogens are neither well understood by science nor properly ...

Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease

Extended urbanisation and emerging infectious disease. Contemporary patterns of extended urbanisation fundamentally shift the vulnerability of ...

How has our urban world made pandemics more likely?

The size of cities pose challenges to effective infectious disease response. The number of megacities in the world - cities with populations of ...

Urbanization and communicable diseases - Nature

This Collection welcomes original research on communicable diseases in urban environments, including their epidemiology and measures that can be taken to ...

Urbanization reshaping infectious diseases

Urbanization leads to major changes in the environment and lifestyle, with significant consequences for health.

Urbanization prolongs hantavirus epidemics in cities - PNAS

The process of urbanization has also been shown to promote the emergence of infectious diseases (9, 10), a public health problem that has ...

Review Urbanisation and infectious diseases in a globalised world

The UN predicts that the world's urban population will almost double from 3·3 billion in 2007 to 6·3 billion in 2050. Most of this increase will be in ...

How urbanization affects the epidemiology of emerging infectious ...

Urbanization leads to many challenges for global health and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. New megacities can be incubators for new epidemics.

Chapter Five: Infectious Diseases and Urbanization

The main changes to risk factors for the transmission of infectious disease in the era of urbanization include high population density in cities, lower health ...

Front Matter | Urbanization and Slums: Infectious Diseases in the ...

To examine the role of the urban built environment in the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases that affect human health, the National Academies of ...

Infectious Diseases, Urbanization and Climate Change - MDPI

This commentary aims to explore China's current capacity to manage infectious diseases which impair population health.