The impact of climate change on infectious disease transmission: Perceptions of CDC health professionals in Shanxi Province, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Wei, Junni ^a   Hansen, Alana ^b   Zhang, Ying ^c   Li, Hong ^d   Liu, Qiyong ^e,f   Sun, Yehuan ^g   Xue, Shulian ^a   Zhao, Shufang ^a   Bi, Peng ^b  

^a SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Shanxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^f SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953342607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109476     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Semenza JC, Suk JE, Estevez V, Ebi KL, Lindgren E (2012) Mapping climate change vulnerabilities to infectious diseases in Europe. Environ Health Perspect 120: 385-392.
2. Cubasch U, Wuebbles D, Chen D, Facchini MC, Frame D, et al. (2013) Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
3. Altizer S, Ostfeld RS, Johnson PT, Kutz S, Harvell CD (2013) Climate change and infectious diseases: from evidence to a predictive framework. Science 341: 514-519.
4. Iyer V, Azhar GS, Choudhury N, Dhruwey VS, Dacombe R, et al. (2014) Infectious disease burden in Gujarat (2005-2011): comparison of selected infectious disease rates with India. Emerg Health Threats J 7: 22838.
5. Suk JE, Ebi KL, Vose D, Wint W, Alexander N, et al. (2014) Indicators for Tracking European Vulnerabilities to the Risks of Infectious Disease Transmission due to Climate Change. Int J Environ Res Public Health 11: 2218-2235.
6. Ebi KL, Lindgren E, Suk JE, Semenza JC (2013) Adaptation to the infectious disease impacts of climate change. Climatic Change 118: 355-365.
7. Bai L, Morton LC, Liu Q(2013) Climate change and mosquito-borne diseases in China: a review. Global Health 9: 10.
8. Suk JE, Semenza JC (2011) Future infectious disease threats to Europe. Am J Public Health 101: 2068-2079.
9. IPCC (2012) Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. Cambridge, UK and New YorkNY, USA: Cambridge University Press. 582 pp p.
10. Shuman EK (2011) Global climate change and infectious diseases. Int J Occup Environ Med 2: 11-19.
11. NDRC (2007) National Development and Reform Commission: China's National Climate Change programme (NCCP). Beijing: National Development and Reform Commission.
12. NDRC (2012) National Development and Reform Commission: China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change. Beijing: National Development and Reform Commission.
13. NDRC (2013) National Development and Reform Commission: China's Actions and Policies for Addressing Climate Change. Beijing: The National Development and Reform Commission.
14. McMichael AJ, Woodruff RE, Hales S (2006) Climate change and human health: present and future risks. Lancet 367: 859-869.
15. Luber G, McGeehin M (2008) Climate change and extreme heat events. Am J Prev Med 35: 429-35.
16. Xu W, Thach TQ, Chau YK, Lai HK, Lam TH, et al. (2013) Thermal stress associated mortality risk and effect modification by sex and obesity in an elderly cohort of Chinese in Hong Kong. Environ Pollut 178: 288-293.
17. Bernstein AS, Myers SS (2011) Climate change and children's health. Curr Opin Pediatr 23: 221-226.
18. Rosenthal JK, Sclar ED, Kinney PL, Knowlton K, Crauderueff R, et al. (2007) Links between the built environment, climate and population health: interdisciplinary environmental change research in New York City. Ann Acad Med Singapore 36: 834 -846.
19. Forsberg B, Braback L, Keune H, Kobernus M, Krayer von Krauss M, et al. (2012) An expert assessment on climate change and health - with a European focus on lungs and allergies. Environ Health 11 Suppl 1: S4.
20. Khanjani N, Bahrampour A (2013) Temperature and cardiovascular and respiratory mortality in desert climate. A case study of Kerman, Iran. Iranian J Environ Health Sci Eng 10: 11.
21. Guo Y, Li S, Zhang Y, Armstrong B, Jaakkola JJ, et al. (2013) Extremely cold and hot temperatures increase the risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality: epidemiological evidence from China. Heart 99: 195-203.
22. Sheffield PE, Landrigan PJ (2011) Global climate change and children's health: threats and strategies for prevention. Environ Health Perspect 119: 291-298.
23. Mathee A, Oba J, Rose A (2010) Climate change impacts on working people (the HOTHAPS initiative): findings of the South African pilot study. Glob Health Action 3.
24. Balbus JM, Malina C (2009) Identifying vulnerable subpopulations for climate change health effects in the United States. J Occup Environ Med 51: 33-37.
25. Moors E, Singh T, Siderius G, Balakrishnan S, Mishra A (2013) Climate change and waterborne diarrhoea in northern India: Impacts and adaptation strategies. Sci Total Environ.
26. Patz JA, Campbell-Lendrum D, Holloway T, Foley JA (2005) Impact of regional climate change on human health. Nature 438: 310 -317.
27. Wu F, Liu Q, Lu L, Wang J, Song X, et al. (2011) Distribution of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in northwestern China. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 11: 1181-1186.
28. Panic M, Ford JD (2013) A review of national-level adaptation planning with regards to the risks posed by climate change on infectious diseases in 14 OECD nations. Int J Environ Res Public Health 10: 7083-7109.
29. Zhang Y, Bi P, Hiller JE (2010) Meteorological variables and malaria in a Chinese temperate city: A twenty-year time-series data analysis. Environ Int 36: 439-445.
30. Wiley LF (2010) Mitigation/adaptation and health: health policymaking in the global response to climate change and implications for other upstream determinants. J Law Med Ethics 38: 629-639.
31. Field CB, Barros VR, Mastrandrea MD, Mach KJ, Abdrabo MA-K, et al. (2014) Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
32. IPCC (2014) Human Health: Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-Benefits. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
33. Bowen KJ, Ebi K, Friel S, McMichael AJ (2013) A multi-layered governance framework for incorporating social science insights into adapting to the health impacts of climate change. Glob Health Action 6: 21820.