Understanding the impact of rainfall on diarrhea: testing the concentration-dilution hypothesis using a systematic review and meta-analysis

ANM Kraay, O Man, MC Levy, K Levy… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Projected increases in extreme weather may change relationships between
rain-related climate exposures and diarrheal disease. Whether rainfall increases or …

How climate change degrades child health: a systematic review and meta-analysis

LJZ Weeda, CJA Bradshaw, MA Judge… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Children are more vulnerable than adults to climate-related health threats, but
reviews examining how climate change affects human health have been mainly descriptive …

Bacterial contamination of drinking water sources in rural villages of Mohale Basin, Lesotho: exposures through neighbourhood sanitation and hygiene practices

P Gwimbi, M George, M Ramphalile - Environmental health and preventive …, 2019 - Springer
Background Bacterial contamination of drinking water is a major public health problem in
rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Unimproved water sources are a major reservoir of …

Sanitation facilities, hygienic conditions, and prevalence of acute diarrhea among under-five children in slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: baseline survey of a …

M Adane, B Mengistie, H Kloos, G Medhin, W Mulat - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background In developing countries, children under the age of five years who live in slums
are highly vulnerable to diarrhea. However, there is a paucity of information on the …

Uncovering social and environmental factors that increase the burden of climate-sensitive diarrheal infections on children

A Dimitrova, A Gershunov, MC Levy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Climate-sensitive infectious diseases are an issue of growing concern due to global
warming and the related increase in the incidence of extreme weather and climate events …

The impact of temperature and precipitation on all-infectious-, bacterial-, and viral-diarrheal disease in Taiwan

G Andhikaputra, A Sapkota, YK Lin, TC Chan… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The ongoing climate change will elevate the incidence of diarrheal in 2030–
2050 in Asia, including Taiwan. This study investigated associations between …

Precipitation variability and risk of infectious disease in children under 5 years for 32 countries: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data

A Dimitrova, S McElroy, M Levy… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Precipitation variability is a potentially important driver of infectious diseases
that are leading causes of child morbidity and mortality worldwide. Disentangling the links …

Association between childhood diarrhoeal incidence and climatic factors in urban and rural settings in the health district of Mbour, Senegal

S Thiam, AN Diène, I Sy, MS Winkler… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
We assessed the association between childhood diarrhoeal incidence and climatic factors in
rural and urban settings in the health district of Mbour in western Senegal. We used monthly …

Association between floods and infectious diarrhea and their effect modifiers in Hunan province, China: a two-stage model

Z Liu, F Zhang, Y Zhang, J Li, X Liu, G Ding… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Understanding the potential links between floods and infectious diarrhea is
important under the context of climate change. However, little is known about the risk of …

A comparison of various correction and blending techniques for creating an improved satellite-gauge rainfall dataset over Australia

ZW Chua, Y Kuleshov, AB Watkins, S Choy, C Sun - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Satellites offer a way of estimating rainfall away from rain gauges which can be utilised to
overcome the limitations imposed by gauge density on traditional rain gauge analyses. In …