Climate change and global health: a Latin American perspective.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on climate change and its impact on health in Latin America. The public health consequences of natural disasters and extreme weather events, the effect of climate change on the changing incidence of infectious diseases, and issues related to vulnerability to the impacts of climate change are discussed.

Concomitant malaria, dengue and COVID-19: an extraordinary challenge for Colombia’s public health system

“…For more than 25 years research has been developed towards evidencing, understanding and modelling the linkages between El Niño, the warm phase of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, and malaria outbreaks in Colombia [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ]. Figure 1 shows the annual series of malaria incidence in Colombia from 1960 to 2019, represented by the Annual Parasite Index [(number of confirmed cases/population at risk) x1000], using data from previous studies and the Colombian National Institute of Health.…”