Climate change and adaptation of the health sector: The case of infectious diseases

Infectious diseases form a group of health problems highly susceptible to the influences of climate. Adaptation to protect human population health from the changes in infectious disease epidemiology expected to occur as a consequence of climate change involve actions in the health systems as well as...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Virulence 2015-08, Vol.6 (6), p.554-557
Main Authors: Confalonieri, Ulisses EC, Menezes, Júlia Alves, Souza, Carina Margonari de
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Climate Change
Communicable Disease Control - methods
Communicable Disease Control - organization & administration
Communicable Diseases - epidemiology
Communicable Diseases - transmission
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Environmental Monitoring
Epidemiologic Methods
Health
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Outbreaks
Review
Surveillance
Vulnerability
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Infectious diseases form a group of health problems highly susceptible to the influences of climate. Adaptation to protect human population health from the changes in infectious disease epidemiology expected to occur as a consequence of climate change involve actions in the health systems as well as in other non-health sectors. In the health sector strategies such as enhanced and targeted epidemiological and entomological surveillance and the development of epidemic early warning systems informed by climate scenarios are needed. Measures in other sectors such as meteorology, civil defense and environmental sanitation will also contribute to a reduction in the risk of infection under climate change.
ISSN:2150-5594
2150-5608
DOI:10.1080/21505594.2015.1023985