Urbanization and the Epidemiology of Mosquito-Borne Disease

Abstract

Man is a major factor in the rapid environmental changes characteristic of the twentieth century. Deliberate changes in the environment may be made by man for a number of reasons: more food, hydroelectric power, more living continuing cycle of environmental modification. Associated with the growth of urban centres is industry, which, because it attracts large labour forces, increases the pressure for more living facilities and the demand for further agricultural extension, so contributing to a cycle of environmental change. If man is considered as a major ecological factor, urbanization is the major feature of the present-day dynamic environment.