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标题：Water and public health in Sahelian countries: The case of infectious disease in Saint-Louis (Senegal)
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作者：Moussa Mbaye ; Gil Mahé ; Eric Servat 等
期刊名称：Science et changements planétaires / Sécheresse
印刷版ISSN：1147-7806
电子版ISSN：1777-5922
出版年度：2009
卷号：20
期号：1
页码：161-170
DOI：10.1684/sec.2009.0168
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Figures See all figures Authors Moussa Mbaye , Gil Mahé , Eric Servat , Richard Laganier , Sylvain Bigot , Oumar Diop , Jean-Francois Guégan Hydrosciences Montpellier UMR 050 (IRD)/UMR 5569 (CNRS) Université Montpellier 2, place Eugène-Bataillon 34095 Montpellier, France, Équipe DYNMIRIS-UMR PRODIG 8586 CNRS Université Denis-Diderot Paris-VII 2, place Jussieu 75251 Paris cedex 05 France, Institut de géographie alpine Université Joseph-Fourier 14 bis, avenue Marie-Reynoard 38100 Grenoble France, Groupe GIRARDEL Université Gaston-Berger Saint-Louis, Sénégal, GEMI, UMR 2724 IRD-CNRS, Équipe dynamique des systèmes et maladies infectieuses Centre IRD de Montpellier 911, avenue Agropolis BP 64501 34394 Montpellier cedex 05 France Key words: human health, mosquitoes, Sahel, Senegal, water resources DOI : 10.1684/sec.2009.0168 Page(s) : 161-70 Published in: 2009 Rainfall occurrence in the Sahelian region in places like Saint-Louis (Senegal) depends essentially on Africa’s monsoon flux from the South Atlantic drift. This monsoon plays an important role while provoking hydrological consequences that result from climate variability over time and space. Such consequences may be droughts or floods with harsh consequences for the socioeconomic activities of the urban population and the environment. For example, the Sahelian drought of the 1970s forced the urban populations to relocate to former backwaters, ponds and mud flats located within Saint-Louis (Senegal). However, better levels of rainfall in the late 1990s subjected the urban population to severe flooding and precarious environmental conditions. This situation is due to the poor and inadequate water network systems which in most cases are old and obsolete. Hence, the poor environmental conditions and stagnant water encourage the breeding of several species of mosquitoe. Among the species, Anopheles and Aedes are the most dangerous because of the transmission of malaria and yellow fever. It is thus important to investigate and model the population’s vulnerability to infectious diseases as a result of current climate variation and its consequences. This work entails the integration of spatial and non-spatial data within the technological framework of a Geographical Information System (GIS), in order to assess the health impacts due to climatic fluctuation. The results show that there is a relationship between periods of flooding, cases of disease and mosquitoes.
关键词：human health; mosquitoes; Sahel; Senegal; water resources