PROBLEMS OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY. I. INTRODUCTION,

Abstract

Epidemiological geography is defined as the study of the nature of the geographical distribution of infectious and parasitic diseases of man. Its subject is not only nosoareal (field of disease distribution), but the area of the species of the causative agent of disease, with which the nosoareal is inseparably linked. Because the existence of causative agents of human diseases depends both on the uninterrupted flow of the epidemic process (anthroponosis), and on the uninterrupted flow of epizootic processes among farm (zoonoses of farm animals) and wild animals (naturally focal zoonoses), epidemiological geography deals with all of these categories and considers them in a geographical aspect.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0619405

Entities

People

  • I. I. Elkin
  • V. K. Yashkul

Organizations

  • United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animals
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Epizootic
  • Farms
  • Geography
  • Livestock
  • Parasitic Diseases
  • Zoonoses

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology