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Cad Saude Publica ; 17 Suppl: 37-46, 2001.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11426264

ABSTRACT

A concept of an ecosystem approach to human health improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa is presented here. Three factors mainly affect the physical condition of the human body: the abiotic environment, vector-transmitted diseases, and natural resources. Our concept relies on ecological principles embedded in a social context and identifies three sets of subsystems for study and management: human disease subsystems, natural resource subsystems, and decision-support subsystems. To control human diseases and to secure food from resource subsystems including livestock or crops, integrated preventive approaches are preferred over exclusively curative and sectorial approaches. Environmental sustainability - the basis for managing matter and water flows - contributes to a healthy human environment and constitutes the basis for social sustainability. For planning and implementation of the human health improvement scheme, participatory decision-support subsystems adapted to the local conditions need to be designed through institutional arrangements. The applicability of this scheme is demonstrated in urban and rural Ethiopia.


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Arthropod Vectors , Communicable Disease Control , Conservation of Natural Resources , Ecosystem , Health Promotion , Africa South of the Sahara , Agriculture , Algorithms , Animals , Cattle , Decision Making , Environment , Humans , Rural Health , Urban Health
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