Human health improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa through integrated management of arthropod transmitted diseases and natural resources

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Johann Baumgärtner²  Markus Bieri¹  Giuseppe Buffoni¹  Gianni Gilioli¹  Hiremagalur Gopalan¹  Jürgen Greiling²  Getachew Tikubet²  Ingeborg Van Schayk² 

[1] ,International Centre of Insect Physiology and EcologyNairobi,Kenya

关键词: Ecosystem;    Natural Resources;    Nutrition;    Vector Control;    Public Health;    Ecosistemas;    Recursos Naturales;    Nutrición;    Control de Vectores;    Salud Pública;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X2001000700012

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A concept of an ecosystem approach to human health improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa is presented here. Three factors mainly affect the physical condition of the human body: the abiotic environment, vector-transmitted diseases, and natural resources. Our concept relies on ecological principles embedded in a social context and identifies three sets of subsystems for study and management: human disease subsystems, natural resource subsystems, and decision-support subsystems. To control human diseases and to secure food from resource subsystems including livestock or crops, integrated preventive approaches are preferred over exclusively curative and sectorial approaches. Environmental sustainability - the basis for managing matter and water flows - contributes to a healthy human environment and constitutes the basis for social sustainability. For planning and implementation of the human health improvement scheme, participatory decision-support subsystems adapted to the local conditions need to be designed through institutional arrangements. The applicability of this scheme is demonstrated in urban and rural Ethiopia.

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