The Impact of Meteorological Factors on Communicable Disease Incidence and Its Projection: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Climate change poses a real challenge and has contributed to causing the emergence and re-emergence of many communicable diseases of public health importance. Here, we reviewed scientific studies on the relationship between meteorological factors and the occurrence of dengue, malaria, cholera, and leptospirosis, and synthesized the key findings on communicable disease projection in the event of global warming. This systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 flow checklist. Four databases (Web of Science, Ovid MEDLINE, Scopus, EBSCOhost) were searched for articles published from 2005 to 2020. The eligible articles were evaluated using a modified scale of a checklist designed for assessing the quality of e

SUBMITTER: Baharom M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8583681 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature