Planetary health approaches to understand and control vector-borne diseases

Contents


Ecology and control of vector borne diseases


Dedication


Notes on Editors


Contributors


Introduction


 Jan E. Conn, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum and Kimberly M. Fornace





Part 1: Impacts of environmental change on VBD ecology


1 Landscape ecology and vector-borne diseases in the Amazon


 Paula R. Prist and Gabriel Zorello Laporta





2 The emerging epidemiology and changing landscape of mosquito-borne infectious diseases in Venezuela


 Maria E. Grillet, Jorge E. Moreno, Alberto Paníz-Mondolfi and Juan C. Navarro





3 Malaria in the Amazon Basin: how climate change and natural disasters create new challenges for an old disease


 Leonardo Suveges Moreira Chaves, Tatiane Moraes de Sousa, Luiz Carlos Ferreira Penha and Sandra S. Hacon





4 Relationship between environmental factors and arboviruses in urban areas


 Thiago Salomão de Azevedo and Rafael Piovezan





Part 2: Coupled human and natural systems


5 A conceptual framework for understanding extractive settlements and disease: demography, environment, and epidemiology


 Natasha Glendening, Werissaw Haileselassie and Daniel M. Parker





6 The economic impacts of malaria: past, present, and future


 Nikolas Kuschnig and Lukas Vashold





7 Mapping patchy malaria: the role of drone technologies in depicting particular environments and contingent risk


 Jacob Brockmann and Dalia Iskander





8 Vector control and surveillance under lockdown: COVID-19 and future pandemics


 Jose del Rosario Loaiza Rodríguez, Gillian Eastwood and Luis F. Chaves Sanabria





9 Agriculture and health: mitigating risks and optimising benefits


 Isabel Byrne and Kallista Chan





Part 3: VBD surveillance and control in changing environments


10 Modelling the effects of climate and climate change on transmission of vector-borne disease


 Marta S. Shocket, Jamie M. Caldwell, Paul J. Huxley, Catherine A. Lippi, Francis A. Windram and Alexander C. Keyel





11 Leveraging earth observation data for surveillance of vector-borne diseases in changing environments


 Kimberly M. Fornace, Emilia Johnson, Marta Moreno, Andy Hardy and Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar





12 Early warning systems for vector-borne diseases: engagement, methods and implementation


 Emilie Finch, Martin Lotto Batista, Tilly Alcayna, Sophie A. Lee, Isabel K. Fletcher and Rachel Lowe





13 Impacts of climate change on malaria vector control in Africa


 Heather M. Ferguson and Nicodem J. Govella





Conclusions


 Kimberly Fornace, Leonardo Suveges Chaves, Maria Anice Sallum and Jan Conn





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