Human infectious diseases and the changing climate in the Arctic
Climatic factors, especially temperature, precipitation, and humidity play an important role in disease transmission. As the Arctic changes at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, understanding how climatic factors and climate change affect infectious disease rates is important for minimizin...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:2633759 2023-05-15T14:36:00+02:00 Human infectious diseases and the changing climate in the Arctic Waits, Audrey Emelyanova, Anastasia Oksanen, Antti Abass, Khaled Rautio, Arja 2018-12-01 https://zenodo.org/record/2633759 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.09.042 eng eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/773421/ https://zenodo.org/communities/nunataryuk https://zenodo.org/record/2633759 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.09.042 oai:zenodo.org:2633759 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Environment International Volume 121(1) 703-713 Human infectious disease Arctic Climate change Zoonosis Vector-borne One health info:eu-repo/semantics/article publication-article 2018 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.09.042 2023-03-11T01:23:55Z Climatic factors, especially temperature, precipitation, and humidity play an important role in disease transmission. As the Arctic changes at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, understanding how climatic factors and climate change affect infectious disease rates is important for minimizing human and economic costs. The purpose of this systematic review was to compile recent studies in the field and compare the results to a previously published review. English language searches were conducted in PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and PLOSOne. Russian language searches were conducted in the Scientific Electronic Library “eLibrary.ru”. This systematic review yielded 22 articles (51%) published in English and 21 articles (49%) published in Russian since 2012. Articles about zoonotic and vector-borne diseases accounted for 67% (n = 29) of the review. Tick borne diseases, tularemia, anthrax, and vibriosis were the most researched diseases likely to be impacted by climatic factors in the Arctic. Increased temperature and precipitation are predicted to have the greatest impacton infectious diseases in the Arctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Zenodo Arctic Environment International 121 703 713 |
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Climatic factors, especially temperature, precipitation, and humidity play an important role in disease transmission. As the Arctic changes at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, understanding how climatic factors and climate change affect infectious disease rates is important for minimizing human and economic costs. The purpose of this systematic review was to compile recent studies in the field and compare the results to a previously published review. English language searches were conducted in PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and PLOSOne. Russian language searches were conducted in the Scientific Electronic Library “eLibrary.ru”. This systematic review yielded 22 articles (51%) published in English and 21 articles (49%) published in Russian since 2012. Articles about zoonotic and vector-borne diseases accounted for 67% (n = 29) of the review. Tick borne diseases, tularemia, anthrax, and vibriosis were the most researched diseases likely to be impacted by climatic factors in the Arctic. Increased temperature and precipitation are predicted to have the greatest impacton infectious diseases in the Arctic. |
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