Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Billions of people living in poverty are at risk of environmentally mediated infectious diseases-that is, pathogens with environmental reservoirs that affect disease persistence and control and where environmental control of pathogens can reduce human risk. The complex ecology of these diseases creates a global health problem not easily solved with medical treatment alone.

Methods

We quantified the current global disease burden caused by environmentally mediated infectious diseases and used a structural equation model to explore environmental and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens across all countries.

Findings

We found that around 80% (455 of 560) of WHO-tracked pathogen species known to infect huma

SUBMITTER: Sokolow SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9669458 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature