Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: weighing up the balance in vector-borne disease transmission
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Arguably one of the most important effects of climate change is the potential impact on human health. While this is likely to take many forms, the implications for future transmission of vector-borne diseases (VBDs), given their ongoing contribution to global disease burden, are both extremely important and highly uncertain. In part, this is owing not only to data limitations and methodological challenges when integrating climate-driven VBD models and climate change projections, but also, perhaps most crucially, to the multitude of epidemiological, ecological and socio-economic factors that drive VBD transmission, and this complexity has generated considerable debate over the past 10-15 years. In this review, we seek to elucidate current knowledge around this topic, identify key themes and uncertainties, evaluate ongoing challenges and open research questions and, crucially, offer some solutions for the field. Although many of these challenges are ubiquitous across multiple VBDs, more specific issues also arise in different vector-pathogen systems.
Authors: Paul E. Parham, Joanna Waldock, George K. Christophides, Deborah Hemming, Folashade Agusto, Katherine J. Evans, Nina Fefferman, Holly Gaff, Abba Gumel, Shannon LaDeau, Suzanne Lenhart, Ronald E. Mickens, Elena N. Naumova, Richard S. Ostfeld, Paul D. Ready, Matthew B. Thomas, Jorge Velasco-Hernandez, Edwin Michael
Institutions: University of Liverpool, Imperial College London, Cyprus Institute, Met Office, Austin Peay State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Old Dominion University, Arizona State University, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Clark Atlanta University, Tufts University, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Notre Dame
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of Notre Dame, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Government, Met Office, Bangor University, Office of Science, Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Awards: G1012483139, G121915436, G1528409558, G1645119126, G1947995952, G203625172, G2411683797, G2877504876, G2988778103, G3049477530, G4423657506, G4991833304, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), G55638240, G6486853205, G675320460, Hadley Centre Climate Prediction Programme, G6911681599, G7569934672, G8269158468, G8906985441
OpenAlex ID: W2034136227