The world is rapidly becoming urban with the global population living in cities projected to double by 2050. This increase in urbanization poses new challenges for the spread and control of communicable diseases such as malaria. In particular, urban environments create highly heterogeneous socio-economic and environmental conditions that can affect the transmission of vector-borne diseases dependent on human water storage and waste water management.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/population-density-climate-variables-and-poverty-synergistically-structure-spatial
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0005155
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/mauricio-santos-vega
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/menno-j-bouma-0
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-neglected-tropical-diseases
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/malaria
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vector-borne-diseases
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urbanisation
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ahmedabad-t
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gujarat
