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Title Public Health Significance of Urban Pests
Author Xavier Bonnefoy Helge Kampen Kevin Sweeney
Date 2008
Description This report provides sound evidence that urban areas are being exposed increasingly to pests and (through them) to pest-related diseases. This multi-faceted problem of increasing exposure entails environmental, structural, institutional, regulative, managerial, financial, scientific and climatic aspects. Solutions that will better protect public health, by implementing improved pest and pest-related disease management, have been identified. These solutions address the need for legal action, education, institutional capacity building and research at international, national and local levels
Keywords PEST CONTROL - methods, INSECT CONTROL - methods, URBAN HEALTH, URBAN POPULATION, ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE, CITY PLANNING, PUBLIC HEALTH, Health Policy
URL http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/98426/E91435.pdf
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