Climate forcing and infectious disease transmission in urban landscapes: integrating demographic and socioeconomic heterogeneity

Urbanization and climate change are the two major environmental challenges of the 21st century. The dramatic expansion of cities around the world creates new conditions for the spread, surveillance, and control of infectious diseases. In particular, urban growth generates pronounced spatial heteroge...

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Published in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2016-10, Vol.1382 (1), p.44-55
Main Authors: Santos-Vega, Mauricio, Martinez, Pamela P., Pascual, Mercedes
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
climate
Climate change
Climate Change - economics
Climate effects
Communicable Diseases - economics
Communicable Diseases - epidemiology
Communicable Diseases - transmission
Demography - economics
Demography - trends
Disease transmission
Heterogeneity
Humans
Infectious diseases
Population Density
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomics
transmission models
Urban areas
Urban environments
Urban Population - trends
Urban sprawl
Urbanization
Urbanization - trends
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Summary:Urbanization and climate change are the two major environmental challenges of the 21st century. The dramatic expansion of cities around the world creates new conditions for the spread, surveillance, and control of infectious diseases. In particular, urban growth generates pronounced spatial heterogeneity within cities, which can modulate the effect of climate factors at local spatial scales in large urban environments. Importantly, the interaction between environmental forcing and socioeconomic heterogeneity at local scales remains an open area in infectious disease dynamics, especially for urban landscapes of the developing world. A quantitative and conceptual framework on urban health with a focus on infectious diseases would benefit from integrating aspects of climate forcing, population density, and level of wealth. In this paper, we review what is known about these drivers acting independently and jointly on urban infectious diseases; we then outline elements that are missing and would contribute to building such a framework.
ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
DOI:10.1111/nyas.13229