Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Evidence from Highly Vulnerable Countries
Background: Climate change is an alarming challenge for humanity at large due to its mediating role in emergence and spread of infectious diseases like cholera and malaria. This study was conducted to examine the effect of climate change and some socio-economic factors on incidence of infectious dis...
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| author | Asim ANWAR Sajid ANWAR Muhammad AYUB Faisal NAWAZ Shabir HYDER Noman KHAN Imran MALIK |
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| description | Background: Climate change is an alarming challenge for humanity at large due to its mediating role in emergence and spread of infectious diseases like cholera and malaria. This study was conducted to examine the effect of climate change and some socio-economic factors on incidence of infectious diseases.
Methods: We used country level panel data over the 1990-2017 period using panel ARDL-PMG technique on highly affected countries from climate change.
Results: There is a long run co-integrating relationship among climate change, socio-economic factors and prevalence of infectious diseases. Climate change, as measured by the temperature, is contributing to the spread of infectious diseases.
Conclusion: This is the first study giving evidence of the impact of climate change on incidence of infectious diseases as can be seen from highly vulnerable countries to climate change. It is recommended to improve the level of education along with public health and town planning to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3057a197d72b4c879ab7f562c5679b9d2022-12-21T20:24:44ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesIranian Journal of Public Health2251-60852251-60932019-12-01481210.18502/ijph.v48i12.3549Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Evidence from Highly Vulnerable CountriesAsim ANWAR0Sajid ANWAR1Muhammad AYUB2Faisal NAWAZ3Shabir HYDER4Noman KHAN5Imran MALIK6Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus, Punjab, PakistanSchool of Business, University of Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, AustraliaDepartment of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus, Punjab, PakistanDepartment of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus, Punjab, PakistanDepartment of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus, Punjab, PakistanDepartment of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus, Punjab, PakistanDepartment of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus, Punjab, PakistanBackground: Climate change is an alarming challenge for humanity at large due to its mediating role in emergence and spread of infectious diseases like cholera and malaria. This study was conducted to examine the effect of climate change and some socio-economic factors on incidence of infectious diseases. Methods: We used country level panel data over the 1990-2017 period using panel ARDL-PMG technique on highly affected countries from climate change. Results: There is a long run co-integrating relationship among climate change, socio-economic factors and prevalence of infectious diseases. Climate change, as measured by the temperature, is contributing to the spread of infectious diseases. Conclusion: This is the first study giving evidence of the impact of climate change on incidence of infectious diseases as can be seen from highly vulnerable countries to climate change. It is recommended to improve the level of education along with public health and town planning to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases.https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/19067Climate changeHuman infectious diseasesTemperaturePopulation density |
| spellingShingle | Asim ANWAR Sajid ANWAR Muhammad AYUB Faisal NAWAZ Shabir HYDER Noman KHAN Imran MALIK Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Evidence from Highly Vulnerable Countries Iranian Journal of Public Health Climate change Human infectious diseases Temperature Population density |
| title | Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Evidence from Highly Vulnerable Countries |
| title_full | Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Evidence from Highly Vulnerable Countries |
| title_fullStr | Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Evidence from Highly Vulnerable Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Evidence from Highly Vulnerable Countries |
| title_short | Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Evidence from Highly Vulnerable Countries |
| title_sort | climate change and infectious diseases evidence from highly vulnerable countries |
| topic | Climate change Human infectious diseases Temperature Population density |
| url | https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/19067 |
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