Clear-Cutting Disease Control Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection /

• Main Authors: Wallace, Rodrick (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chaves, Luis Fernando (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Bergmann, Luke R. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ayres, Constância (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hogerwerf, Lenny (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kock, Richard (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Wallace, Robert G. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Epidemiology.; Public health.; Public Health.

The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity. By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne...

Table of Contents:

• The Social Context of the Emergence of Vector-Borne Disease
• Modeling Vector-Borne Diseases in a Commoditized Landscape
• Modeling State Interventions
• Implications for Disease Intervention and Modeling
• Mathematical Appendix.- References. .