Understanding diarrhoeal diseases in response to climate variability and drought in Cape Town, South Africa: a mixed methods approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The climate of southern Africa is expected to become hotter and drier with more frequent severe droughts and the incidence of diarrhoea to increase. From 2015 to 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, experienced a severe drought which resulted in extreme water conservation efforts. We aimed to gain a more holistic understanding of the relationship between diarrhoea in young children and climate variability in a system stressed by water scarcity.

Methods

Using a mixed-methods approach, we explored diarrhoeal disease incidence in children under 5 years between 2010 to 2019 in Cape Town, primarily in the public health system through routinely collected diarrhoeal incidence and weather station data. We developed a negative binomial regression model to understand the relation

SUBMITTER: Lee TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10436439 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature