Emerging Diseases and Socio-spatial Disparities: Lessons from Dengue Virus in Delhi
Economic and Political Weekly, 26 March 2016
In less than two decades, new viruses that were thought to have been controlled have re-emerged worldwide. Socially disadvantaged individuals and urban health inequities may help spread such diseases. Just as social sciences originally used diseases as a powerful prism to study inequalities in urban areas, there is now a case for using social sciences to analyse and solve global health issues.