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Volume 6, Number 2—April 2000
Perspective

Malaria on the Move: Human Population Movement and Malaria Transmission

Pim MartensComments to Author  and Lisbeth Hall
Author affiliations: Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

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Table

A typology of population movement (adapted from [2])

Circulation
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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