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The biogeography of host-parasite interaction, Morand, Serge and Krasnov, Boris (Ed.) (2010) 247-265
When geography of heath meets health ecology
Vincent Herbreteau 1, 2
(2010)

In an explanatory approach of diseases, health and health care, health geography has contributed to a spatial understanding of local and global dynamics by multiplying scales and broadening the analysis of causative factors. Illnesses are then globally considered in the geographical environment beyond traditional approaches limited to individuals, and indeed human health status is observed within a society undergoing rapid transformations and drastically acting on an unbalanced environment. Recent emergences of vector-borne zoonoses will be considered in this chapter as remarkable illustrations in the field of health ecology, and developed through the advanced methods shared with health geography.
1:  Territoires, Environnement, Télédétection et Information Spatiale (UMR TETIS)
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement [CIRAD] : UMR91 – CEMAGREF-UR LCMO – Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural des Eaux et Forêts
2:  Animal et gestion intégrée des risques (Agirs)
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement [CIRAD] : UPR22
Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

Life Sciences/Ecology, environment/Health

Life Sciences/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems

Environmental Sciences/Global Changes

Life Sciences/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases
health geography – health ecology – emerging disease – zoonose – environmental change