GAIMARD , Maryse

Residential areas (neighborhoods, gardens, houses) have a significant impact on public health. This is illustrated by the chikungunya epidemic that raged in Reunion in 2005 and 2006. During the period when the epidemic was at its height, the local people had to re-examine their usualrelationships with their residential areas and in particular...

The Reunion Island faced a great epidemic of chikungunya in 2005-2006. Chikungunya is a vector-borne disease transmitted by a mosquito. It is in the town of St Pierre, in the south of the island, that the first cases of chikungunya appeared in 2005. We chose to work on one area of the Ravine des Cabris, in the town of Saint-Pierre in the south...

S'intéresser aux jardins de l'île de la Réunion ne procède pas uniquement d'un attrait naturaliste ou esthétique car les jardins sont aussi des espaces de vie qui ont été au centre des préoccupations lors de l'épidémie de chikungunya qui a sévit sur l'île de 2005 à 2006. Les politiques de prévention ont mis l'accent sur le risque que...

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As part of the ANTHROPO-MTV research project (ANR SEST program), we focused on common sense thinking about vector-borne diseases, using the example of chikungunya, through an interdisciplinary quantitative survey carried out at Meeting. Here we present the results from the psychosocial component. The survey was conducted by questionnaire in...

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Dans le cadre du projet de recherche ANTHROPO-MTV (programme ANR SEST) destiné à étudier la gestion des maladies transmissibles vectorielles à la Réunion à partir de l'exemple du chikungunya, nous avons choisi comme terrain d'enquête la Ravine des Cabris (RDC). Une enquête quantifiée a été réalisée au mois de novembre 2007 auprès de 415 ménages...

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The outbreak of Chikungunya in Reunion in 2005/2006 surprised by its intensity and by the appearance of serious forms. It has left health professionals and relatively poor populations facing the lack of appropriate treatment. From the example of Chikungunya, the general objective of our multidisciplinary research was to study how two types of...

synthèse des résultats d'un projet ANR dans le cade du prgramme SEST