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West Nile virus in Maricopa County, Arizona: investigating human, vector, and environmental interactions
Description
Despite the arid climate of Maricopa County, Arizona, vector-borne diseases have presented significant health challenges to the residents and public health professionals of Maricopa County in the past, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Currently, West Nile virus is the only mosquitoes-transmitted disease actively, and natively, transmitted throughout the state of Arizona. In an effort to gain a more complete understanding of the transmission dynamics of West Nile virus this thesis examines human, vector, and environment interactions as they exist within Maricopa County. Through ethnographic and geographic information systems research methods this thesis identifies 1) the individual factors that influence residents' knowledge and behaviors regarding mosquitoes, 2) the individual and regional factors that influence residents' knowledge of mosquito ecology and the spatial distribution of local mosquito populations, and 3) the environmental, demographic, and socioeconomic factors that influence mosquito abundance within Maricopa County. By identifying the factors that influence human-vector and vector-environment interactions, the results of this thesis may influence current and future educational and mosquito control efforts throughout Maricopa County.
Date Created
2013
Contributors
- Kunzweiler, Colin (Author)
- Boone, Christopher (Thesis advisor)
- Wutich, Amber (Committee member)
- Brewis-Slade, Alexandra (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Sustainability
- public health
- Geographic Information Science and Geodesy
- Arizona
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Health Belief Model
- Mosquito-borne disease
- Participatory Mapping
- West Nile Virus
- West Nile virus--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- West Nile Virus
- Mosquitoes--Control--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- Mosquitoes
- Remote sensing--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- remote sensing
- Geographic information systems--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- Geographic information systems
Resource Type
Extent
xi, 154 p. : col. ill., col. maps
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.18663
Statement of Responsibility
by Colin Kunzweiler
Description Source
Viewed on Jan. 15, 2014
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2013
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-154)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Sustainability
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- 2021-08-30 01:38:52
- 2 years 8 months ago
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