The impact of regional climate change on malaria risk due to greenhouse forcing and land-use changes in tropical Africa

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-84

  Ermert, Volker ^a   Fink, Andreas H ^a   Morse, Andrew P ^b   Paeth, Heiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Highland malaria; Malaria; Malaria model; Malaria projection; Sahel

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INSECT BITE; LAND USE; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MODEL; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TROPICS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84855217307     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103681     Document Type: Article

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