 | POPULATION HEALTH AND AGING: STRENGTHENING THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY
Copyright © 2001 by the New York Academy of Sciences
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 954:184-222 (2001)
© 2001 New York Academy of Sciences
Agricultural Colonization and Malaria on the Amazon Frontier
BURTON H. SINGER AND
MARCIA CALDAS DE CASTRO
Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Address for correspondence: Burton H. Singer, Professor of Demography & Public Affairs, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Voice: 609-258-5938; fax: 609-258-1039.
singer{at}princeton.edu
The purpose of this paper is to characterize the interrelationships between macropolitical, social and economic policies, human migration, agricultural development, and malaria transmission on the Amazon frontier. We focus our analysis on a recent colonization project, POLONOROESTE, in the state of Rondônia. Employing data from field surveys in 1985-1987 and 1995, we use spatial statistical methodologies linked to a geographical information system (GIS) to describe the patterns of human settlement in the area, the ecological transformations induced by forest clearance practices, and the manner in which these factors determine gradations of malaria risk. Our findings show that land use patterns, linked to social organization of the community and the structure of the physical environment, played a key role in promoting malaria transmission. In addition, the location of each occupied area is itself an important determinant of the pattern of malaria risk. Based on lessons learned from our spatial and temporal characterization of malaria risk, we propose policies for malaria mitigation in the Brazilian Amazon.
Key Words: Brazilian Amazon • frontier expansion • frontier malaria • kriging • population • environment • health • spatial analysis
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