Volume 6, Number 2—April 2000
Perspective
Malaria on the Move: Human Population Movement and Malaria Transmission
Table
A typology of population movement (adapted from [2])
Circulation | ||||
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Daily | Periodic | Seasonal | Long-term | Migration |
Commuting | Trading | Fishing | Laboring | Urbanization |
Trading | Pilgrimage | Pastoralism | Colonization | Refugees |
Cultivation | Mining | Laboring | Colonization | |
Wood-cutting | Tourism |
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