Does Forest Loss Increase Human Disease? Evidence from Nigeria
利用尼日利亚高分辨率森林变化数据与儿童健康调查数据，研究发现森林砍伐显著增加了疟疾发病率，但对腹泻和呼吸道疾病无显著影响。
We examine the impact of forest loss on three infectious diseases attributed to modifiable environmental factors in the last decade in Nigeria. Geolinking a new high-resolution dataset of global forest change to child-level health data from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys from 2008 and 2013, we find that forest loss significantly increases the incidence of malaria, though it does not affect the incidence of diarrhea and respiratory diseases. The impact of forest loss on malaria is large and the dynamic pattern of the impact suggests a temporary ecological disturbance consistent with findings in the tropical medicine literature.