When geography of heath meets health ecology

Vincent Herbreteau (1, 2)

1 UMR TETIS - Territoires, Environnement, Télédétection et Information Spatiale
2 UPR AGIRs - Animal et gestion intégrée des risques

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.

Mots clés: health geography; health ecology; emerging disease; zoonose; environmental change

Domaines: Géographie; Santé; Ecosystèmes; Milieux et Changements globaux; Maladies émergentes

Vincent Herbreteau. When geography of heath meets health ecology. Morand, Serge and Krasnov, Boris. The biogeography of host-parasite interaction, Oxford University Press, pp.247-265, 2010. ⟨hal-00545460⟩