Toolbox Planetary Health

Key
Resources
Clinical
Guidelines
Women & Child
Health
Pharmacy &
Technologies
Public
Health
Capacity
Building
COUNTRIES
TOOLBOXES
- Conflict
- Zika
- TB
- Cholera
- HIV
- Polio
- Rapid Response
- Refugee
- Disability
- Specific Hazards
- Social Ethics
- Health Financing Toolbox

Middle East and North Africa
West and Central Africa
East and Southern Africa
South–East Asia Region
Western Pacific Region
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Latin America and the Carribbean
Western and Central Europe
North America
South Sudan
Turkmenistan
Jamaica
Japan
Belgium
France
Maldives
Mauritius
Tunisia
Portugal
Spain
South Korea
Algeria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
French Guyana
Israel

Login
Register
English

Planetary Health

TOOLBOX

Suggest new resources

Planetary Health
Health Consequences
Infectious Diseases

Filter

Featured

Language

English

Spanish

German

Portuguese

Document type

Studies & Reports

Fact sheets

Training Material

Manuals

No document type

Countries / Regions

Global

North Macedonia

East and Southern Africa

West and Central Africa

Western and Central Europe

Authors & Publishers

World Health Organisation (WHO)

DNTDs

Pan American Health Organization PAHO

The Lancet

Africa CDC

Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

African Union

and J. M. Cohen

Antonia Braus, Maria Victoria Larrateguy, Angela R. Schug, Johan Willems

Antonia Braus, Maria Victoria Larrateguy , Angela R. Schug, Johan Willems

British Medical Journal

Chua, P.L.C.

Colón-González, F.J.

Convention on Biological Diversity

Dr. Kristina Schottmayer

Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases

J.E. Suk, D. Fischer et al.

Jing Liu-Helmersson , H. Stenlund, A. Wilder-Smith, et al.

Kristie L. Ebi, Joshua Nealon

L.E. Escobar, R. Lowe et al.

M. Odhiambo Sewe, A.M Tompkins et al.

medmissio Institute of Global Heatlh

Murray, C.A.

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)

Nature Scientific Reports

NCEZID, CDC

PLOS Biology

PLOS One

RohrI, J.R.

The Lancet Microbe

Tjaden, N.B.

V. Huber, C. F.Sheng Ng et al.

World Health Organization WHO

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe

Publication Years

2020-2026

2010-2019

Vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti: effects of temperature and implications for global dengue epidemic potential

Jing Liu-Helmersson , H. Stenlund, A. Wilder-Smith, et al. PLOS One (2014) CC

Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that occurs mainly in the tropics and subtropics but has a high potential to spread to new areas. Dengue infections are climate sensitive, so it is important to better understand how changing climate factors affect the potential for geographic spread and futu ... re dengue epidemics. Vectorial capacity (VC) describes a vector's propensity to transmit dengue taking into account human, virus, and vector interactions. VC is highly temperature dependent, but most dengue models only take mean temperature values into account. Recent evidence shows that diurnal temperature range (DTR) plays an important role in influencing the behavior of the primary dengue vector Aedes aegypti. In this study, we used relative VC to estimate dengue epidemic potential (DEP) based on the temperature and DTR dependence of the parameters of A. aegypti. We found a strong temperature dependence of DEP; it peaked at a mean temperature of 29.3°C when DTR was 0°C and at 20°C when DTR was 20°C. Increasing average temperatures up to 29°C led to an increased DEP, but temperatures above 29°C reduced DEP. In tropical areas where the mean temperatures are close to 29°C, a small DTR increased DEP while a large DTR reduced it. In cold to temperate or extremely hot climates where the mean temperatures are far from 29°C, increasing DTR was associated with increasing DEP. Incorporating these findings using historical and predicted temperature and DTR over a two hundred year period (1901-2099), we found an increasing trend of global DEP in temperate regions. Small increases in DEP were observed over the last 100 years and large increases are expected by the end of this century in temperate Northern Hemisphere regions using climate change projections. These findings illustrate the importance of including DTR when mapping DEP based on VC. more

Download

View PDF

Add to my

Climate change and communicable diseases: a manual for health workers

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2011) C_WHO

There is a broad consensus nowadays that the Earth is warming up as a result of greenhouse gas emissions caused by anthropogenic activities. It is also clear that current trends in the fields of energy, development and population growth will lead to continuous and ever more dramatic climate change. ... This is bound to affect the fundamental prerequisites for maintaining good health: clean air and water, sufficient food and adequate housing. The planet will warm up gradually, but the consequences of the extreme weather conditions such as frequent storms, floods, droughts and heat-waves will have sudden onset and acute repercussions. It is widely accepted that climate change will have an impact on the spread of infectious diseases in Europe, which is likely to bring about new public health risks in the majority of cases. Transmission of infectious diseases depends on a number of factors, including climate and environmental elements. Foodborne and waterborne diseases, for instance, are associated with high temperatures. Disease-transmitting vectors (e.g. mosquitoes, sandflies and ticks) are highly sensitive to climate conditions, including temperature and humidity; their geographical distribution will widen as climate conditions change, potentially allowing them to spread into regions where they are not currently able to live. The primary purpose of this manual on climate change and infectious diseases is to raise the awareness and the level of knowledge of health workers at national, regional and local levels in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on the health risks associated with climate change and infectious diseases. This manual was devel- oped as part of the WHO Regional Office for Europe project, Protecting health from climate change: a seven–country initiative, implemented with financial support from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. more

Create your own
Login

Home
Contact
Data privacy
Legal notice
FAQ
About
Sitemap

A Project by

medbox @ 2026