id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016657-w30hed7w Blatt, Amy J. Geographic Medicine 2014-09-29 .txt text/plain 3208 151 44 By examining of the role of human movement across different scales, this chapter examines how public health communities can use information on pathogen transmission to increase the effectiveness of disease prevention programs and clinical care. Studies have shown that the ability to identify the sources (origins) and sinks (destinations) of imported infections due to human travel and locating the high-risk sites of parasite importation could greatly improve the control and prevention programs [ 3 , 4 ] . Indeed, vector-borne diseases place an enormous burden on public health and require effi cient control strategies that are developed through an understanding of the origin (or sources) of infections and the relative importance of human movement at different scales. By examining of the role of human movement across different scales, public health communities can use this valuable information on pathogen transmission to increase the effectiveness of disease prevention programs. ./cache/cord-016657-w30hed7w.txt ./txt/cord-016657-w30hed7w.txt