Community Health Resilience: Addressing Tick-Borne Diseases
摘要
This chapter examines the relationship between climate change and the increasing frequency of tick-borne diseases (TBDs) and highlights the importance of community health resiliency in addressing these matters. The chapter reviews new developments in the serological and molecular diagnostics of tick-borne pathogens in relation to traditional microscopy and culture methods, discussing their advantages and shortcomings. The chapter analyzes how socio-economic gaps, specifically within low-income groups, result in a lack of healthcare access and disproportionate treatment delays, leading to more advanced disease stages. Empowering communities through health education and targeted outreach programs tailored to the newly identified vulnerable populations is a critical component of the discussion. The chapter emphasizes the absence of proactive public health approaches to chronic problems in climate change and resilience-focused burdened public health policies regarding TBDs that need to be addressed. Equitable social strategies that encompass social justice and occupational health are recommended to mobilize community capacity to respond to TBDs.