Human movement patterns of farmers and forest workers from the Thailand-Myanmar border.

ABSTRACT: Background: Human travel patterns play an important role in infectious disease epidemiology and ecology. Movement into geographic spaces with high transmission can lead to increased risk of acquiring infections. Pathogens can also be distributed across the landscape via human travel. Most fine scale studies of human travel patterns have been done in urban settings in wealthy nations. Research into human travel patterns in rural areas of low- and middle-income nations are useful for understanding the human components of epidemiological systems for malaria or other diseases of the rural poor. The goal of this research was to assess the feasibility of using GPS loggers to empirically measure human travel patterns in this setting, as well as to quantify differing travel patterns by age,

SUBMITTER: Tun STT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10660292 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature