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KMID : 0311219770080010085
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Yonsei Reports on Tropical Medicine
1977 Volume.8 No. 1 p.85 ~ p.94
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The Importance of the Geoecological Approach in the Control of Diseases in a Tropical country
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:Schweinfurth, Ulrich
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After briefly pointing to the fact, that man even today in spite of all modern developments is very much a ´territorial´ being, bound up with his habitat and depending for his well-being on certain basic requirements as far as his environment is concerned, the island of Ceylon is introduced as a model-case to indicate how geoecological research may be of assistance to add to the understanding and solution of geomedical problems, the climatic phenomenon of the failure of the monsoon resulting in a catastrophic spread of malaria, the resurgence and spread of malaria caused, at least partly, by modern development the impact of upderlying rock qualities on surface drainage and waste disposal, the opening up of the central high, lands and the resulting spread of population in formerly uninhabited areas and the subsequent spread of diseases, until then not known there, the failure of crop diversification, if development is not preceded by proper ecological evaluation of the habitats concerned, the basic facilities Ceylon offers in a considerable range of climatic conditions based upon the ecological fact that the island´s central mountain mass ranges up to over 2500 m and serves as a clip atic divide. Finally, the case of filariasis, cited as one in which ecological research, no doubt, could greatly assist medical work.
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