Contours of Risk: Spatializing Human Behaviors to Understand Disease Dynamics in Changing Landscapes

Overview

Journal Ecohealth

Publisher Springer

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2012 Jul 19

PMID 22805769

Citations 7

Authors

Heidi Hausermann

Petra Tschakert

Erica A H Smithwick

David Ferring

Richard Amankwah

Erasmus Klutse

Julianne Hagarty

Lindsay Kromel

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Abstract

We echo viewpoints presented in recent publications from EcoHealth and other journals arguing for the need to understand linkages between human health, disease ecology, and landscape change. We underscore the importance of incorporating spatialities of human behaviors and perceptions in such analyses to further understandings of socio-ecological interactions mediating human health. We use Buruli ulcer, an emerging necrotizing skin infection and serious health concern in central Ghana, to illustrate our argument.

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