Question

Identify why an infectious disease may or may not be contagious or communicable and how that impacts environmental health.

Answer 1

Ans) In spite of the knowledge that exists on EID, there are still gaps in the understanding of ecosystem disease regulation and how human actions may affect disease indirectly and in the long term.

- A multidisciplinary approach is needed, both in research and in policymaking. It is necessary to understand that although humans are depending on nature's ecosystems for our wellbeing, the different priorities of people and cultures necessitate compromises and trade-offs to be done.

- Top-down interventions may be counterproductive if the incentives of the local populations are not fully understand, and control measures may be devastating for the public health if the disease epidemiology is not fully grasped.

- Thus, disease control and monitoring is no longer to be considered a science of medicine and epidemiology alone, but also must include the social, environmental, and economic values appreciated by people and societies.