IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON PARASITIC INFECTIONS

ABSTRACT

Urbanization as defined by the United Nations is the movement of the people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. It is closely linked to modernization, industrialization and the sociological process of rationalization. Movements of people whether from rural to urban areas or from one country to another often alter the characteristic epidemiological disease profile and at the same time new disease appear or old ones reemerge. Health challenges particularly evident in cities relate to water, environment violence, injury and non-communicable diseases.
These facilitate the spread of many parasitic diseases such as malaria, amoebiasis, geohelminthiasis, filariasis, leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis thus inducing the increase on morbidity and mortality from these diseases. Policies should be employed in mitigating the diseases associated with urbanization such as public health awareness scheme, discouraging rural–urban migration, provision of infrastructures, sanitation and other efforts geared toward the control of the parasitic diseases acquired through this process.      

A POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED BIOLOGY
FACULTY OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
DEDICATION
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER ONE
1.0       INTRODUCTION    
1.1       DEFINITION OF TERMS   
1.2       URBANIZATION AND HUMAN HEALTH        

CHAPTER TWO    
2.0       POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS
OF URBANIZATION          
2.1       POSITIVE IMPACTS OF URBANIZATION       
2.2.0   NEGATIVE IMPACT OF URBANIZATION       
2.2.1 CHALLENGES OF URBANIZATION        
2.2.2   THE URBAN PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AND PARASITIC
INFECTION
2.2.3   RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION    
2.2.4   POPULATION GROWTH AND ITS INFLUENCE ON
PARASITIC INFECTION:  
2.2.5   PARASTITIC INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH URBAN
SETTING
2.2.6   URBANIZATION AND PROBLEM OF EPIDEMIOLOGY      

2.2.7   THE PROBLEM OF SLUMS          
2.2.8   SANITATION AND HYGIENE CHALLENGES IN
SLUM

CHAPTER THREE
3.0       WAYS OF MITIGATING THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF URBANIZATION  

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0       CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION    





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