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Water resources development and schistosomiasis ecology in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia

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This paper examines the impact of water resources development, particularly river regulation and irrigated agriculture, on the occurence of schistosomiasis and its intermediate host snails in the Awash Valley. An ecologic--geographic approach based on: a combination of comparative schistosomiasis prevalence and human ecological studies of indigenous seminomadic pastoralists and migrant laborers from the Ethiopian highland; analysis of snail intermediate host ecology--geography; and longitudinal studies of water resources development, is used to evaluate the endemicity status and changing spatial distribution of schistosomiasis mansoni and schistosomiasis haematobium. This study confirms the suitability of epidemiologic--ecologic methods for analyzing relationships between causal processes and the spatiality of schistosomiasis. In this context local schistosomiasis control programs are reviewed and recommendations made for their improvements.

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  • Kloos, Helmut, 1985. "Water resources development and schistosomiasis ecology in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 20(6), pages 609-625, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:20:y:1985:i:6:p:609-625
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    1. Grosse, Scott, 1993. "Schistosomiasis And Water Resources Development: A Re-Evaluation Of An Important Environment-Health Linkage," Working Papers 11881, Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Training Project.
    2. Hui Dang & Jing Xu & Shi-Zhu Li & Zhi-Guo Cao & Yi-Xin Huang & Cheng-Guo Wu & Zu-Wu Tu & Xiao-Nong Zhou, 2014. "Monitoring the Transmission of Schistosoma japonicum in Potential Risk Regions of China, 2008 – 2012," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-10, February.
    3. Jun-Fang Xu & Jing Xu & Shi-Zhu Li & Tia-Wu Jia & Xi-Bao Huang & Hua-Ming Zhang & Mei Chen & Guo-Jing Yang & Shu-Jing Gao & Qing-Yun Wang & Xiao-Nong Zhou, 2013. "Transmission Risks of Schistosomiasis Japonica: Extraction from Back-propagation Artificial Neural Network and Logistic Regression Model," PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(3), pages 1-11, March.

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