Addressing vulnerability, building resilience: community-based adaptation to vector-borne diseases in the context of global change.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The threat of a rapidly changing planet - of coupled social, environmental and climatic change - pose new conceptual and practical challenges in responding to vector-borne diseases. These include non-linear and uncertain spatial-temporal change dynamics associated with climate, animals, land, water, food, settlement, conflict, ecology and human socio-cultural, economic and political-institutional systems. To date, research efforts have been dominated by disease modeling, which has provided limited practical advice to policymakers and practitioners in developing policies and programmes on the ground.

Main body

In this paper, we provide an alternative biosocial perspective grounded in social science insights, drawing upon concepts of vulnerability, resilience, parti

SUBMITTER: Bardosh KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725972 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature