TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate change, urbanization and disease
T2 - Summer in the city...
AU - Reiner, Robert C.
AU - Smith, David L.
AU - Gething, Peter W.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This work was supported by the Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics program of the Science and Technology Directory, Department of Homeland Security and Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH). DLS acknowledges funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [#OPP1110495; PWG is a Career Development Fellow [#K00669X] jointly funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under the MRC/DFID Concordat agreement and receives support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [#OPP1068048].
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2014.
PY - 2014/10/20
Y1 - 2014/10/20
N2 - Climate change and urbanization can alter the burden of human diseases. The tropics, a region that includes the poorest populations and highest disease burdens, are expected to get slightly hotter and substantially more urban. Studies have projected changing burdens under different climate or urbanization scenarios, but it remains unclear what will happen if both happen at once. Interactions could amplify disease burdens, improve health overall, or shift burdens around. Social planners need better data on contemporary seasonal disease incidence patterns across the spectrum of climate, urbanicity and socio-economic status. How climate change, urbanization and health interact must be understood to adequately plan for the future.
AB - Climate change and urbanization can alter the burden of human diseases. The tropics, a region that includes the poorest populations and highest disease burdens, are expected to get slightly hotter and substantially more urban. Studies have projected changing burdens under different climate or urbanization scenarios, but it remains unclear what will happen if both happen at once. Interactions could amplify disease burdens, improve health overall, or shift burdens around. Social planners need better data on contemporary seasonal disease incidence patterns across the spectrum of climate, urbanicity and socio-economic status. How climate change, urbanization and health interact must be understood to adequately plan for the future.
KW - Climate change
KW - Composition of disease
KW - Seasonality
KW - Tropical climates
KW - Urbanization
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U2 - 10.1093/trstmh/tru194
DO - 10.1093/trstmh/tru194
M3 - Article
C2 - 25491136
AN - SCOPUS:84928887513
SN - 0035-9203
VL - 109
SP - 171
EP - 172
JO - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
IS - 3
ER -