Mayer J D
Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2000 Apr;50(7-8):937-52. doi: 10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00346-9.
Emerging infectious diseases are the focus of increased attention and even alarm in the scholarly and popular literature. The emergence of new diseases and the resurgence of older and previously recognized infectious diseases both in developing and developed country poses challenges for understanding the ecological web of causation, including social, economic, environmental and biological components. This paper is a synthesis of the major characteristics of emerging diseases, in an interdisciplinary context. Political ecology is one framework for analysis that is promising in developing a modified ecology of disease.
新发传染病在学术文献和大众读物中日益受到关注，甚至引发恐慌。无论是在发展中国家还是发达国家，新疾病的出现以及旧有传染病的再度流行，都对理解包括社会、经济、环境和生物因素在内的疾病成因生态网络构成挑战。本文从跨学科角度综合阐述了新发疾病的主要特征。政治生态学是一个颇具前景的分析框架，有助于构建一种改良的疾病生态学。
