Scaling Dynamics of Human Diseases and Urbanization in Colombia

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202010.0615.v1
• Publication Date: 2020-10-30T08:53:36Z
• Authors: Alejandro Feged-R...; Federico Andrade; Felipe González-C...; Francisco Escobedo
• Keywords: Human settlement

Colombia has one of the largest numbers internally displaced populations in world and recently entered a period post-conflict. These socio-political processes trends have increased migration people towards cities accordingly are affecting distribution occurrence tropical diseases its urban peri-urban areas. Studies suggested that many human phenomena such as urbanization scale according to size regardless cultural context. But other studies show health epidemics malarial immunodeficiency virus infections, follow scale-free terms population density. We explore these relationships dynamics context using statistical analyses available geospatial data identify between disease transmission Colombia. found rural certain were described by power-laws frequently mentioned studies. However, we malaria presented higher intensity infection settlements less than 50,000 individuals, particularly for ethnic indigenous populations. Results indicate do indeed scales Colombia; findings differ from previous epidemiological those infection. Additionally, identified showing infections become endemic Targeting locations demographic groups key managing public issues urbanizing tropics.