Health and climate change
Emerging threat to public health caused by climate change and developing approaches to support vulnerable populations
- Global warming is not the principal determinant of malaria incidence and prevalence
- This article criticises predictions that climate change will lead to more cases of malaria in the coming decades. It is argued that the ecology and behaviour of humans and vectors are key to the transmission and epidemiology of the disease. The author concludes that traditional and new malaria control strategies should be pursued irrespective of future climate change.
Latest Documents
- Effect of climate change on the health of rural farmers in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria
- African Journals Online - AJOL, 2013
- This study examines the effect of climate change on the health of rural farmers in Nigeria. It is based on structured interviews with 98 respondents and the collected data were analysed through the use of frequency count, simple perce...
- Climate change is likely to worsen the public health threat of diarrheal disease in Botswana
- K. A. Alexander / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Diarrheal disease is an important health challenge, accounting for the majority of childhood deaths globally. Climate change is expected to increase the global burden of diarrheal disease but little is known regarding climate drivers,...
- Motivators and barriers to incorporating climate change-related health risks in environmental health impact assessment
- L. R. Turner; K. Alderman; D. Connell; S. Tong / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- This paper presents the findings of a study conducted in Queensland, Australia, which explores various stakeholders’ views on the capacity of the Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) to incorporate climate change. With ...
- Climate change and its impact on population health in southern China: implication for adaptation policy
- Adapting to Climate Change in China, 2012
- Climate change has become an increasingly important public health concern in China. This policy brief is part of the Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) project's Guangdong Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (GDC...
- Climate risk management for the health sector in Nicaragua
- M. Keller / United Nations Development Programme, 2013
- Commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (UNDP BCPR), under the Climate Risk Management Technical Assistance Support Project (CRM TASP), this report addresses climate r...
- Climate risk management for malaria control in Kenya: the case of the western highlands
- J. Dekens 2013
- Despite its declining prevalence, malaria infection remains as the main cause of disease and mortality in Kenya. It is also currently re-emerging in the western highlands due to a combination of climatic and non-climatic factors. The ...
- Climate variation and malaria prevalence in Warri metropolis
- S. I. Efe / Scientific Research Publishing, 2013
- This paper examines the relationship between climate and the prevalence of malaria in Warri metropolis, Nigeria. Collected climate data was analysed against malaria patient records from three hospitals for a period of twenty years (19...
- Health impacts of climate change in Vanuatu: an assessment and adaptation action plan
- J. T. Spickett / Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013
- Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a tool for analysing potential health issues during planning stages of proposals using established systematic mechanisms to demonstrate factors that could affect health and to consider potential respo...
- A vectorial capacity product to monitor changing malaria transmission potential in epidemic regions of Africa
- P. Ceccato / International Research Institute for Climate and Society, 2012
- Malaria is a major public health threat to the African continent. Rainfall and temperature are two of the major factors triggering malaria epidemics in warm semi-arid and high altitude epidemic risk areas. The ability of the mosquitoe...
- Africa environment outlook 3: our environment, our health
- J. Opio-Odongo / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
- The Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) is a tool of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) for monitoring environmental management in Africa. This third edition focuses on the links between environment and health,...
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