The impact of climate change on neglected tropical diseases: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of diseases that continue to affect >1 billion people, with these diseases disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations and territories. Climate change is having an increasing impact on public health in tropical and subtropical areas and across the world and can affect disease distribution and transmission in potentially diverse ways. Improving our understanding of how climate change influences NTDs can help identify populations at risk to include in future public health interventions. Articles were identified by searching electronic databases for reports of climate change and NTDs between 1 January 2010 and 1 March 2020. Climate change may influence the emergence and re-emergence of multiple NTDs, particularly those that involv

SUBMITTER: Tidman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7842100 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature