• DOI:10.1289/ehp.6877
Corpus ID: 5775159

Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence

@article{Patz2004UnhealthyLP,
  title={Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence},
  author={J. Patz and P. Daszak and G. M. Tabor and A. Aguirre and M. Pearl and J. Epstein and N. Wolfe and A. M. Kilpatrick and J. Foufopoulos and D. Molyneux and D. Bradley},
  journal={Environmental Health Perspectives},
  year={2004},
  volume={112},
  pages={1092 - 1098}
}

• J. Patz, P. Daszak, +8 authors D. Bradley
• Published 2004
• Medicine
• Environmental Health Perspectives

Anthropogenic land use changes drive a range of infectious disease outbreaks and emergence events and modify the transmission of endemic infections. These drivers include agricultural encroachment, deforestation, road construction, dam building, irrigation, wetland modification, mining, the concentration or expansion of urban environments, coastal zone degradation, and other activities. These changes in turn cause a cascade of factors that exacerbate infectious disease emergence, such as forest… Expand

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