Association between precipitation and mortality due to diarrheal diseases by climate zone: A multi-country modeling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Precipitation could affect the transmission of diarrheal diseases. The diverse precipitation patterns across different climates might influence the degree of diarrheal risk from precipitation. This study determined the associations between precipitation and diarrheal mortality in tropical, temperate, and arid climate regions.

Methods

Daily counts of diarrheal mortality and 28-day cumulative precipitation from 1997 to 2019 were analyzed across 29 locations in eight middle-income countries (Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, and Thailand). A two-stage approach was employed: the first stage is conditional Poisson regression models for each location, and the second stage is meta-analysis for pooling location-specific coefficient

SUBMITTER: Chua PLC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11257672 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature