Landscape ecology and epidemiology of vector-borne diseases: Tools for spatial analysis
Landscape ecology and epidemiology of vector-borne diseases: Tools for spatial analysis
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DOI：
10.1093/jmedent/35.4.435
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发表时间：
1998-07-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Kitron, U
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作者：
Kitron, U
地理信息系统(GIS)、全球定位系统(GPS)、遥感和空间统计是分析媒介传播疾病流行病学中的空间成分并将其整合到基于景观生态学方法的研究、监测和控制计划中的工具。景观生态学研究景观和生态系统的镶嵌结构，认为生物和非生物成分的空间异质性是决定生态系统结构的根本机制。描述了地理信息系统、全球定位系统、卫星图像和空间统计方法以及景观生态学-流行病学方法，并对这些方法在病媒传播疾病中的应用进行了综述。作者和同事对以色列的疟疾和肯尼亚的采采蝇，以及美国中北部的莱姆病、LaCrosse脑炎和东部马脑炎进行了合作研究，作为将这些工具应用于研究和疾病监测的例子。讨论了空间工具和景观生态学与新出现的传染病和全球变化对病媒传播疾病的影响的研究的相关性。
Geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing, and spatial statistics are tools to analyze and integrate the spatial component in epidemiology of vector-borne disease into research, surveillance, and control programs based on a landscape ecology approach. Landscape ecology, which deals with the mosaic structure of landscapes and ecosystems, considers the spatial heterogeneity of biotic and abiotic components as the underlying mechanism which determines the structure of ecosystems. The methodologies of GIS, GPS, satellite imagery, and spatial statistics, and the landscape ecology-epidemiology approach are described, and applications of these methodologies to vector-borne diseases are reviewed. Collaborative studies by the author and colleagues on malaria in Israel and tsetse flies in Kenya, and Lyme disease, LaCrosse encephalitis, and eastern equine encephalitis in the north-central United States are presented as examples for application of these tools to research and disease surveillance. Relevance of spatial tools and landscape ecology to emerging infectious diseases and to studies of global change effects on vector-borne diseases are discussed.