Climate Change Impacts on Waterborne Diseases: Moving Toward Designing Interventions

Lévy, Karen; Smith, Shanon; Carlton, Elizabeth J.

doi:10.1007/s40572-018-0199-7

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“…The microbial water quality can deteriorate and related diarrhoeal disease burden can increase due to socioeconomic development and environmental change (Levy et al, 2018;Sellers and Ebi, 2018). For example, an increased urban population and an urban sewage system that does not keep up with the growth, could deteriorate the surface water quality.…”

Section: Problem Formulationmentioning

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Mapping pathogen emissions to surface water using a global model with scenario analysis

Hofstra¹,

Vermeulen²,

Medema³

2019

Water and Sanitation for the 21st Century: Health and Microbiological Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater Management (Global Wate

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Section: Problem Formulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping pathogen emissions to surface water using a global model with scenario analysis

Hofstra¹,

Vermeulen²,

Medema³

2019

Water and Sanitation for the 21st Century: Health and Microbiological Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater Management (Global Wate

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“…Climate change impacts on health are considered as one of today's greatest public health threat (DeJarnett et al, 2017). A number of publications highlight that climate change will alter globally the incidence of food-borne diseases, water-borne diseases and diarrheal diseases in particular (Lake and Barker, 2018;Levy et al, 2018;Schijven et al, 2013). In the African region, 91 million illness episodes and 137,000 death every year are attributable to food-borne diseases (WHO, 2018).…”

Section: Climate Change and Health Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It was reported that extreme temperature and precipitation will impact on enteric pathogens, particularly on faecal-oral pathogens that are present in the environment, increasing the risk of gastrointestinal and diarrhoeal diseases (Levy et al, 2018). The World Health Organization estimates that, under climate change, an additional 48,000 deaths will occur in children aged below 15 years, mainly due to diarrhoeal diseases by 2030 and 33,000 deaths by 2050 (WHO, 2014b).…”

Section: Climate Change and Health Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food-borne and water-borne diseases under climate change in low- and middle-income countries: Further efforts needed for reducing environmental health exposure risks

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2019

Acta Tropica

181

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A B S T R A C TThis paper provides a view of the major facts and figures related to infectious diseases with a focus on food-borne and water-borne diseases and their link with environmental factors and climate change. The global burden of food-borne diseases for 31 selected hazards was estimated by the World Health Organization at 33 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2010 with 40% of this burden concentrated among children under 5 years of age. The highest burden per population of food-borne diseases is found in Africa, followed by Southeast Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean sub-regions. Unsafe water used for the cleaning and processing of food is a key risk factors contributing to food-borne diseases. The role of quality and quantity of water to the general burden of infectious diseases deserves attention, particularly in low-and middle-income countries, as its effects go beyond the food chain. Water-related infectious diseases are a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide, and climate change effects will exacerbate the challenges for the public health sector for both foodborne and water-borne diseases. Selected case studies from Africa and Asia show that (i) climate change extreme events, such as floods, may exacerbate the risks for infectious diseases spreading through water systems, and (ii) improvements related to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene could result in a significant reduction of intestinal parasitic infections among school-aged children. There is a need to better anticipate the impacts of climate change on infectious diseases and fostering multi-stakeholder engagement and multi-sectoral collaborations for integrated interventions at schools, community and household levels. The paper calls for giving priority to improving the environmental conditions affecting food-borne and water-borne infectious diseases under climate change.

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“…Therefore, the potential impact of climate change on economic growth indirectly affects our forecasts of the underlying trends in coverage, WASH-related mortality, and time households spend collecting (Eqs 4-6) water as well as our estimates of health and non-health related losses (Eqs 7-9). Recent studies have also found a robust association between increases in temperature and increased incidence of diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases [20,21,22]. In Eq 5, we also directly include the impact of changes in temperature on WASH-related mortality.…”

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Forecasts of mortality and economic losses from poor water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa

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This paper presents country-level estimates of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)related mortality and the economic losses associated with poor access to water and sanitation infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 1990 to 2050. We examine the extent to which the changes that accompany economic growth will "solve" water and sanitation problems in SSA and, if so, how long it will take. Our simulations suggest that WASH-related mortality will continue to differ markedly across countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In many countries, expected economic growth alone will not be sufficient to eliminate WASH-related mortality or eliminate the economic losses associated with poor access to water and sanitation infrastructure by 2050. In other countries, WASH-related mortality will sharply decline, although the economic losses associated with the time spent collecting water are forecast to persist. Overall, our findings suggest that in a subset of countries in sub-Saharan Africa (e.g., Angola, Niger, Sierra Leone, Chad and several others), WASH-related investments will remain a priority for decades and require a long-term, sustained effort from both the international community and national governments. Citation: Fuente D, Allaire M, Jeuland M, Whittington D (2020) Forecasts of mortality and economic losses from poor water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS ONE 15(3): e0227611.

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Climate Change Impacts on Waterborne Diseases: Moving Toward Designing Interventions

Cited by 114 publications

References 98 publications

Mapping pathogen emissions to surface water using a global model with scenario analysis

Mapping pathogen emissions to surface water using a global model with scenario analysis

Food-borne and water-borne diseases under climate change in low- and middle-income countries: Further efforts needed for reducing environmental health exposure risks

Forecasts of mortality and economic losses from poor water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa

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