Impact of Climate Change on Vector-Borne Disease in the Amazon

Published in In book: Global Climate Change and Public Health (pp.193-210)
Authors

Pan, W.K.Y., Branch, O. and Zaitchik, B.
Publication year 2014
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8417-2_11
Affiliations
  • Nicholas School of Environment and the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, USA
  • Department of Microbiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA
  • Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

 
IAI Program

CRN3
IAI Project CRN3036
Keywords
Climate change
Vector-borne disease in the Amazon and climate change
Climate change in the Amazon
Amazon climate change and vector-borne disease
Disease burden and climate change

Abstract

Impending changes in climate regimes coupled with anthropogenic changes in land use and land cover change pose the most pressing challenges to human societies and natural ecosystems. Global climate change is predicted to disrupt seasonal periodicities and long-term trends in rainfall and temperature, altering natural climate cycles and variation. The impact of environmental change on disease transmission will determine who, when, and where human livelihoods flourish and fail. Vulnerable populations will be particularly affected&mdashi.e., chronically disadvantaged populations who are typically poor, have limited economic opportunities and access to services, and few (if any) options to improve their quality of life. Immediate action is needed to better understand, adapt, and respond to disease burdens that will be affected by changing climate.