El cambio climático como determinante de la distribución de la malaria

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Melo, Benavides Andrea, Julie
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Purpose: to review relevant information about the effects of climate change and its influence on worldwide malaria distribution. Topic: climate change represents a threat to human health, because, along with ecological and socioeconomic factors, it promotes the necessary conditions for malaria transmission and dispersion. Development: articles and documents of interest in Spanish and English of the World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (paho) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) were reviewed. Findings: climate change has been associated with the increased occurrence of infectious diseases, along with the emergence and reemergence of Vector Transmitted Diseases (vtd) in zones where they had previously been eradicated. Climate change, particularly in terms of temperature, humidity and non-excessive precipitation, influence malaria distribution, because they affect the abundance of the vector, its feeding habits and development and its permanence in the parasite. Conclusion: the effect of climate variability on health is a matter of importance about which the population must be prepared and informed, particularly in endemic areas and their surroundings, because the sociodemographic and geographic factors, along with fluctuations in environmental variables, are determining factors in malaria transmission and represent a challenge in response to which strategies and policies must be generated to counteract their impact.
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Language	English
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