Journal article
Genetics: A New Landscape for Medical Geography
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol.103(6), pp.1452-1467
11/01/2013
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.784102
PMCID: PMC3928082
PMID: 24558292
Abstract
The emergence and reemergence of human pathogens resistant to medical treatment will present a challenge to the international public health community in the coming decades. Geography is uniquely positioned to examine the progressive evolution of pathogens across space and through time and to link molecular change to interactions between population and environmental drivers. Landscape as an organizing principle for the integration of natural and cultural forces has a long history in geography and, more specifically, in medical geography. Here, we explore the role of landscape in medical geography, the emergent field of landscape genetics, and the great potential that exists in the combination of these two disciplines. We argue that landscape genetics can enhance medical geographic studies of local-level disease environments with quantitative tests of how human-environment interactions influence pathogenic characteristics. In turn, such analyses can expand theories of disease diffusion to the molecular scale and distinguish the important factors in ecologies of disease that drive genetic change of pathogens.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Genetics: A New Landscape for Medical Geography
- Creators
- Margaret Carrel - University of IowaMichael Emch - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol.103(6), pp.1452-1467
- DOI
- 10.1080/00045608.2013.784102
- PMID
- 24558292
- PMCID
- PMC3928082
- NLM abbreviation
- Ann Assoc Am Geogr
- ISSN
- 0004-5608
- eISSN
- 1467-8306
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 16
- Grant note
- R24HD050924 / EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) R24 HD050924 / NICHD NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2013
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Interdisciplinary Programs; Geographical and Sustainability Sciences; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984259387902771
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