Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
World Health Organisation (WHO)
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
Publication Year:
2012
Publication Place
Geneva, Switzerland
Physical Description:
64 p. ; 29 cm
Call Number
363.739 WOR
Collection
Language
English
Record ID:
38756
Legacy PEIN ID:
78775
General Notes
1 copy
Subject Heading(s)
Communicable Diseases
Emergencies
Climate Change
Global health
Environmental health
Disasters
Abstract
Infectious diseases take a heavy toll on populations around the world. Some of the most virulent infections are also highly sensitive to climate conditions. For example, temperature, precipitation and humidity have a strong influence on the reproduction, survival and biting rates of the mosquitoes that transmit malaria and dengue fever, and temperature affects the lifecycles of the infectious agents themselves. The same meteorological factors also influence the transmission of water and food-borne diseases such as cholera, and other forms of diarrhoeal disease. Hot, dry conditions favour meningococcal meningitis a major cause of disease across much of Africa. All of these diseases are major health problems. Diarrhoea kills over two million people annually, and malaria almost one million. Meningitis kills thousands, blights lives and hampers economic development in the poorest countries. Some 50 million people around the world suffer from dengue fever each year. The public health community has made important progress against all of these diseases in recent decades, but they will continue to cause death and suffering for the foreseeable future.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
World Health Organisation (WHO)
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
Publication Year:
2012
Publication Place
Geneva, Switzerland
Physical Description:
64 p. ; 29 cm
Call Number
363.739 WOR
Collection
Language
English
Record ID:
38756
Legacy PEIN ID:
78775
General Notes
1 copy
Record Created: 17-Nov-2012
Record Modified: 17-Dec-2020