The impact of rainfall and temperature variation on diarrheal prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Applied Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-72

  Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit ^a   Kanji, Shireen ^b   Wang, Limin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's health; Diarrhea; Rainfall; Sub Saharan Africa; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CHILD HEALTH; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH IMPACT; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 82255191694     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Baltagi B.H., Bresson G., Pirottee A. Fixed effects, random effects or Hausman-Taylor? A pretest estimator. Economic Letters 2003, 79:361-369.
2. Bern C., Martines J., de Zoysa I., Glass R. The magnitude of the global problem of diarrhoeal disease: a ten year update. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 1992, 70(6):705-714.
3. Black R.E., Morris S.S., Bryce J. Where and why are 10 million children dying each year?. The Lancet 2003, 361:2226-2234.
4. Boschi-Pinto C., Lanata C., Mendoza W., Habte D. Diarrheal diseases. Disease and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa 2006, The World Bank, Washington, DC. 2nd ed. D. Jamison, R. Feacham, M. Makgoba, E.R. Bos, F.K. Baingana (Eds.).
5. Brandt C.D., Kim H.W., Rodriguez W.J., Arrobio J.O., Jeffries C.B., Parrott R.H. Rotavirus gastroenteritis and weather. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1982, 16(3):478-482.
6. Bryce J., Boschi-Pinto C., Shibuya K., Black R.E., the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group WHO estimates of the causes of death in children. Lancet 2005, 365:1147-1152.
7. Campbell-Lendrum D., Corvalan C., Neira M. Global climate change: implications for international public health policy. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2007, 85(3).
8. Checkley W., Epstein L.D., Gilman R.H., Figueroa D., Cama R., Patz J., et al. Effects of El Niño and ambient temperature on hospital admissions for diarrhea disease in Peruvian children. Lancet 2000, 355:442-450.
9. Checkley W., Epstein L.D., Gilman R.H., Cabrera L., Black R.E. Effects of acute diarrhea on linear growth in Peruvian children. American Journal of Epidemiology 2003, 157:166-175.
10. Colwell R.R. Global climate and infectious disease: the cholera paradigm. Science 1996, 274:2025-2031.
11. Curriero F., Patz J., Rose J., Lele S. The association between extreme precipitation and waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States, 1948-1994. American Journal of Public Health 2001, 91(8):1194-1199.
12. Curtis V.A., Cairncross S., Yonli R. Domestic hygiene and diarrhoea, pinpointing the problem. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2000, 5(1):22-32.
13. Curtis V., Cairncross S. Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2003, 3:275-281.
14. DHS Demographic and health surveys STATcompiler 2008, Macro International Inc., Calverton MD, Accessed 14.11.08. http://www.statcompiler.com/.
15. Dos Santos S., Henry S. Rainfall variation as a factor in child survival in rural Burkina Faso: the benefit of an event history analysis. Population, Space and Place 2008, 14:1-20.
16. Ebi K., Schmier J.K. A stitch in time: improving public health early warning systems for extreme weather events. Epidemiologic Reviews 2005, 27:115-121.
17. Falkenmark M. Population growth and water scarcity: the predicament of tomorrow's Africa. Population and Development Review 1990, 16(Suppl.):81-94.
18. Fewtrell L., Kaufmann R.B., Kay D., Enanoria W., Haller L., Colford J.M. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet infectious diseases 2005, 5:42-52.
19. Haile M. Weather patterns, food security and humanitarian response in sub-Saharan Africa. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 2005, 360:2169-2182.
20. Hashizume M., Armstrong B., Hajat S., Wagatsuma Y., Faruque A.S.G., Hayashi T., et al. Association between climate variability and hospital visits for non-cholera diarrhoea in Bangladesh: effects and vulnerable groups. International Journal of Epidemiology 2007, 36(5):1030-1037.
21. Climate change 2001: Third assessment report 2001, Vol. I. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
22. IPCC Summary for policymakers. Climate Change 2007: The physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt (Eds.).
23. Jones G.R., Steketee R., Black Z., Bhutta S., Morris, the Bellagio Child Survival Study Group How many child deaths can we prevent this year?. Lancet 2003, 362:65-71.
24. Kale P.L., Hinde J.P., Nobre F.F. Modeling diarrhea disease in children less than 5 years old. Annals of Epidemiology 2004, 14:371-377.
25. Kandiji S.T., Verchot L., Mackensen J. Climate change and variability in the sahel region: Impacts and adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector 2006, World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and United National Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
26. Katz R.W., Brown G.G. Extreme events in a changing climate: variability is more important than averages. Climatic Change 1992, 21:289-302.
27. Keusch G.T., Fontaine O., Bhargava A., Boschi-Pinto C., Bhutta Z.A., Gotuzzo E., et al. Diarrheal diseases. Disease control priorities in developing countries 2006, 371-388. Oxford University Press, New York. 2nd ed. Jamison (Ed.).
28. Kottek M., Grieser J., Beck C., Rudolf B., Rubel F. World map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated. Meterologische Zeitschrift 2006, 15(3):259-263.
29. Luby S.P., Agboatwalla M., Feikin D.R., Painter J., Billhimer W., Altaf A., et al. Effect of handwashing on child health: a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet 2005, 366(9481):225-233.
30. Maiya P.P., Pereira S.M., Mathan M., Bhat P., Albert M.J., Baker S.J. Aetiology of acute gastroenteritis in childhood in Southern India. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1977, 52:482-485.
31. Moe K., Shirley J.A. The effects of relative humidity and temperature on the survival of human rotavirus in faeces. Archives of Virology 1982, 72:179-186.
32. Mølbak K., Wested N., Hojlyng N., Scheutz F., Gottschau A., Aaby P., et al. The etiology of early childhood diarrhea: a community study from Guinea-Bissau. Journal of Infectious Disease 1994, 169:581-587.
33. Moore S.R., Lima A.A.M., Conaway M.R., Schorling J.B., Soares A.M., Guerrant R.L. Early childhood diarrhea and helminthiases associate with long-term linear growth faltering. International Journal of Epidemiology 2001, 30(6):1457-1464.
34. Pande S., Keyser M., Arouna A., Sonneveld B.G.S. Addressing diarrhea prevalence in the west African middle belt: social and geographic dimensions in a case study for Benin. International Journal of Health Geographics 2008, 7:17.
35. Peel M.C., Finlayson B.L., McMahon T.A. Updated world map of the Koppen-Geiger climate classification. Hydrology and East System Science 2007, 11:1633-1644.
36. Singh R.B., Hales S., de Wet N., Raj R., Hearnden M., Weinstein P. The influence of climate variation and change on diarrheal disease in the Pacific Islands. Environmental Health Perspectives 2001, 109(2):155-159.
37. Slingo J.M., Challinor A.J., Hoskins B.J., Wheeler T.R. Introduction: food crops in a changing climate. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society B 2005, 360:1983-1989.
38. Steele D., Alexander J., Hay I. Rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis in black infants in South Africa. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1986, 992-994.
39. Stige L.C., Stave J., Chan K.-S., Ciannelli L., Pettorelli N., Glantz M., et al. The effect of climate variation on agro-pastoral production in Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006, 103(9):3049-3053.
40. Storeygard A., Balk D., Levy M.A., Deane G.D. The global distribution of infant mortality: a subnational spatial view. Population, Space and Place 2008, 14(3):209-229.
41. United Nations Population division of the department of economic and social affairs of the United Nations secretariat, world population prospects: The 2006 revision and world urbanization prospects: The 2005 revision 2006, http://esa.un.org/unpp.
42. Vörösmarty C.J., Douglas E.M., Green P.A., Revenga C. Geospatial indicators of emerging water stress: an application to Africa. Ambio 2005, 34(3):230-236.
43. WHO WHO, expert committee on nutrition and physical status: Uses and interpretation of anthropometry 1995, World Health Organization, Geneva.
44. World Bank Africa Rainfall and Temperature Evaluation System (ARTES) 2003, World Bank, Washington DC.