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
2.1 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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