Epidemiology of Vector-Borne Diseases: One Health Approach
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2025) | Viewed by 1164
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One Health is an approach, perspective, or strategy focusing on and utilizing the interface between human health, animal health, and the ecosystem. This allows investigating a health problem with a more holistic approach and facilitates more efficient allocation of resources, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration. When different disciplines tend to work in isolation within their own systems, implementing a One Health approach in a real-life setting could be challenging. That is why, even though the concept has been there for decades, its use is not as widespread as expected.
The same applies to vector-borne diseases, which can often be of animal (zoonotic) origin, the transmission of which in humans is greatly influenced by its animal reservoirs and the changes in the ambient weather conditions (both in the form of climatic variability and climate change) and the ecosystem, which directly influence the vector (e.g., mosquitoes) behavior and the pathogen virulence.
We would like to invite investigators to submit their research findings on vector borne diseases through a One Health lens for dissemination through this special edition of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases titled Epidemiology of Vector-Borne Diseases: One Health Approach. We welcome research from the lab to the field, from discovery to delivery, from knowledge generation to its translation and implementation. The studies can be observational or interventional, using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods. The articles can be reviews of evidence. The papers may also present epidemiological or entomological investigations. We believe that this Special Edition will develop a pool of evidence on this important public health issue that will be accessible by the wider scientific community, program and policy people, and the public.
Dr. Kazi Rahman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vector borne diseases
- infectious diseases
- epidemiology
- public health
- One Health
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