Anthropogenic land use changes drive a range of infectious disease outbreaks and
emergence events and modify the transmission of endemic infections. These drivers include …

The population of the United States of America is currently experiencing increased illness
from dispersed and synergistic causes. Many of the acute insults of the past have receded …

The incidence of tick-borne diseases has increased in recent decades and accounts for the
majority of vector-borne disease cases in temperate areas of Europe, North America, and …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

The twin concepts of zooprophylaxis and the dilution effect originated with vector-borne
diseases (malaria), were driven forward by studies on Lyme borreliosis and have now …

The population ecology of ticks is fundamental to the spatial and temporal variation in the
risk of infection by tick-borne pathogens. Tick population dynamics can only be fully …

Recent reviews have argued that disease control is among the ecosystem services yielded
by biodiversity. Lyme disease (LD) is commonly cited as the best example of the …

During the processes of human population dispersal around the world over the past 50 000–
100 000 years, along with associated cultural evolution and inter–population contact and …

The world's climate appears now to be changing at an unprecedented rate. Shifts in the
distribution and behaviour of insect and bird species indicate that biological systems are …

BACKGROUND: Perceptions of the environment and physical activity have been associated
using survey methods, yet little is known about the validity of environmental surveys. In this …