Xu, Jianchu; Yang, Yong; Li, Zhuoqing; Tashi, Nyima; Sharma, Rita; Fang, Jing. “Understanding Land Use, Livelihoods, and Health Transtion among Nomads: A Case of Gangga Township Dingri County, Tibetan Autonomous Region of China”.  EcoHealth. 5,104-114 (2008).

Over the past several decades Tibetan Nomads have changed from being animal husbandries to a much more agricultural based community. As a result of leaving their home in Tibet and moving to India they have become a sedentary village-  remarkable diet changes and lifestyle, decline in spatial mobility, increase in food production, and emerging infectious and no communicable diseases.  Through maintaining mobile herding and off- farm labor and trade could both address the environmental degradation and improve the well being of local people. Xu identifies pertinent linkages between land and health, and spatial and temporal mismatch of livelihoods  and health care. By looking at land use, Health care patients in Gangga County, disease patterns, and conducting critical interviews with Tibetans and key informants Xu analyzed the forced rapid lifestyle on the Tibetans. The author suggests a slower transition of agropastoral system. Due to the rate and magnitudes of the socialecological changes Tibetans suffer far greater health problems.

This article is directly correlated to my study. The Tibetans not only have learn how to cultivate new soil (which was not exactly in their norm before) but they also have to deal with the climate change and mismatch of the new environment effecting their health. One thing that the article mentions is the problem with tuberculosis when they first arrived. How well have they adjusted now that a few decades have past? Are health problems caused by the socialecological change still highly prevalent? How much have they truly been able to adjust? What has made it possible?