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Mapping Russia's Natural Focal Diseases

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This chapter contains a short summary of natural focal disease theory, which was developed by Evgeny Pavlovsky, a Soviet scientist, in the 1930s. This theory generalized material and data that had been gathered on natural focal infectious and parasitic diseases and the complex networks of mutually linked and mutually dependent pathogen, animal host and arthropod vector populations, which make up a biotic component that is organically linked to natural landscapes. The history of research on natural focal diseases in Russia, the contributions of Russian and Soviet scientists to the development of the theory of the emergence and spread of natural focal diseases and modern achievements in this discipline are also described. The understanding of what makes a natural focus is discussed, along with the theory’s main tenets. The level of cartographical research on the spread of natural focal diseases in Russia is briefly characterized, and the methodology of map compilation is also explained. The chapter includes a geographical map of Russia and a map of its federal administrative divisions, which simplifies the later connections between the thematic content, geographic units and units of territorial divisions.

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  1. Department of Biogeography, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Svetlana Malkhazova

  2. Department of Biogeography, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Varvara Mironova

  3. Department of Biogeography, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Natalia Shartova

  4. Department of Biogeography, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Dmitry Orlov

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Malkhazova, S., Mironova, V., Shartova, N., Orlov, D. (2019). Introduction. In: Mapping Russia's Natural Focal Diseases. Global Perspectives on Health Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89605-2_1

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