Delays in reducing waterborne and water-related infectious diseases in China under climate change | Zendy

Maggie M. Hodges | Zendy; Jessica H. Belle | Zendy; Elizabeth J. Carlton | Zendy; Song Liang | Zendy; Huazhong Li | Zendy; Wei Luo | Zendy; Matthew C. Freeman | Zendy; Yang Liu | Zendy; Yang Gao | Zendy; Jeremy Hess | Zendy; Justin V. Remais | Zendy

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Delays in reducing waterborne and water-related infectious diseases in China under climate change

Author(s) -

Maggie M. Hodges,

Jessica H. Belle,

Elizabeth J. Carlton,

Song Liang,

Huazhong Li,

Wei Luo,

Matthew C. Freeman,

Yang Liu,

Yang Gao,

Jeremy Hess,

Justin V. Remais

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

nature climate change

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.749

H-Index - 189

eISSN - 1758-6798

pISSN - 1758-678X

DOI - 10.1038/nclimate2428

Subject(s) - sanitation , climate change , china , environmental health , hygiene , disease burden , waterborne diseases , infectious disease (medical specialty) , burden of disease , environmental protection , geography , medicine , disease , environmental science , outbreak , population , environmental engineering , biology , ecology , virology , archaeology , pathology

Despite China's rapid progress improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) access, in 2011, 471 million people lacked access to improved sanitation and 401 million to household piped water. Because certain infectious diseases are sensitive to changes in both climate and WSH conditions, we projected impacts of climate change on WSH-attributable diseases in China in 2020 and 2030 by coupling estimates of the temperature sensitivity of diarrheal diseases and three vector-borne diseases, temperature projections from global climate models, WSH-infrastructure development scenarios, and projected demographic changes. By 2030, climate change is projected to delay China's rapid progress toward reducing WSH-attributable infectious disease burden by 8-85 months. This development delay summarizes the adverse impact of climate change on WSH-attributable infectious diseases in China, and can be used in other settings where a significant health burden may accompany future changes in climate even as the total burden of disease falls due to non-climate reasons.

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