Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon.

摘要: Abstract Ecosyndemics refer to disease interactions that result from environmental changes commonly caused by humans. In this paper, we push scholarship on ecosyndemics into new territory using the ecosyndemic framework compare two case studies—the Southern Interoceanic highway in Peru and Belo Monte hydroelectric dam Brazil—to assess likelihood of socio-environmental factors interacting leading ill health a syndemic fashion. Assessing these studies an perspective, find construction dams highways tropical forests create conditions for increases vector-borne illnesses, surges sex work sexually-transmitted infections, increased psychological stress resulting violence, delinquency, erosion social cohesion. We suggest processes could interact synergistically increase individual's immune burden population's overall morbidity. However, differences impacts food, water, cultural systems, observed community corporate-level actions may bolster face rapid socio-ecological change. Looking at together, complex picture vulnerability resilience, risk opportunity, complicates straight-forward predictions development projects but highlights role concept can play informing impact assessments future research. conclude proposing conceptual model potential between stress, sexaully-transmitted infections investigations synergistic among draw biological, social, ecological sciences.