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Conclusion If the 19th century was the century of Europe and the 20th century that of North America, then it is probable that the 21st century will be the century of Asia. At the same time, it is likely that problems associated with urbanization will be more severe in Asia than elsewhere because of the continuing rapid growth of its cities. The critical nature of Asian urbanization is set in this...
Conclusion If the 19th century was the century of Europe and the 20th century that of North America, then it is probable that the 21st century will be the century of Asia. At the same time, it is likely that problems associated with urbanization will be more severe in Asia than elsewhere because of the continuing rapid growth of its cities. The critical nature of Asian urbanization is set in this...
st th The 21 century is the century of Asia in the same way the 20 century was of America. In terms of urbanization challenges Asia in the current century is faced with an enormous surge of urban population and the associated problems of rural –urban migration, overcrowding, proliferation of slums, housing shortage, growing unempl- ment and underemployment and choice between capital intensive productivity...
Bangladesh has had a long history of malaria occurrence. During the British era, malaria mapping was first initiated by Bentley in 1916; the west central part of the country being moribund had the greatest concentration of malaria. There-after, during the Second World War large-scale anti-malaria activities were carried on using DDT. By the 1970s malaria incidents declined. It was wrongly thought...
Malaria remains one of the worst killers in the world today and is the cause of even greater suffering in human, social, and economic terms. This chapter seeks to introduce the reader to various facets of this age-old disease, including malaria disease ecology, the course of malaria occurrence and diffusion over the ages, and the various traditional and public health measures that have been used for...
This chapter highlights the ways in which urban malaria in India continued to be a source of great concern to the government, health planners, and related officials all the way into the early 1990s. It updates the scenarios described and analyzed in the previous chapter up to the year 1997, the latest year of the twentieth century for which urban malaria data were available to the authors. The previous...
South Asia is a cohesive region and yet diverse, both in terms of physical and socio-cultural environments. This concluding chapter summarizes these similarities and variations in the context of malaria occurrence and specifically highlights common challenges such as the ever-conducive climate and the threat of climate change, cultural practices, socio-economic constraints, and political disruptions...
Urban malaria has become an important issue in the overall strategies in the control/eradication of malaria in India. This chapter highlights the fact that unplanned and haphazard developmental activities have resulted in deteriorating urban environments, which in turn have created conducive breeding areas for certain malaria vectors such as Anopheles stephensi. This chapter identifies urban regions...
Environmental conditions and malaria occurrence have a strong relation with each other in Sri Lanka. The wet zone in southwestern Sri Lanka is relatively malaria free since water logging is minimal, partly because of the steep slopes. Using 1972–1976 data on malaria occurrence, this study reveals that malaria did not establish a foothold in the wet zone but Sri Lanka’s dry zone was affected considerably...
st th The 21 century is the century of Asia in the same way the 20 century was of America. In terms of urbanization challenges Asia in the current century is faced with an enormous surge of urban population and the associated problems of rural –urban migration, overcrowding, proliferation of slums, housing shortage, growing unempl- ment and underemployment and choice between capital intensive productivity...
This highly topical book provides an in-depth account of the South Asian experience with the deadly disease that has held this region hostage for millennia. The book touches specifically on the resurgence of malaria experienced in the second half of the twentieth century, which occurred just a few years after malaria was thought to have been virtually eradicated from the region. The causes and consequences...
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