Human behaviour and disease hazards: Spatial perspectives on rural health |
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| Authors: | Robert W Roundy Dr |
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| Institution: | (1) Dept. of Human Ecology and Social Sciences, Cook College, Rutgers University, POB 231, 08903 New Brunswick, NJ, USA |
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| Abstract: | Human behaviour in a given society and environment can result in behaviour-associated increases or decreases in local disease hazard. Following the concepts of health researchers Jacques May, E.N. Pavlovsky, J. Ralph Audy, and Frederick Dunn and the geographer Torsten Hägerstrand, the identity and spatial distribution of infectious disease hazards generated by normative behaviour of rural-dwelling Ethiopians are delineated. Graphic illustrations represent an Ethiopian highland village environment by a cross section of contact habitat cells. For Ethiopia, the probable disease hazards brought about by human behaviour associate with specific cells of this spatial cross section. The conclusion portrays the utility of identification by geographers of the spatial aspects of these human-generated hazards for improved programs of rural development in Third World areas.
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