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标题：Past, present, and future climate at select INDEPTH member Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Africa and Asia
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作者：David M. Hondula ; Joacim Rocklöv ; Osman A. Sankoh 等
期刊名称：Global Health Action
印刷版ISSN：1654-9716
电子版ISSN：1654-9880
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：0
DOI：10.3402/gha.v5i0.19083
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis
摘要：Background: Climate and weather affect human health directly and indirectly. There is a renewed interest in various aspects of environmental health as our understanding of ongoing climate change improves. In particular, today, the health effects in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are not well understood. Many computer models predict some of the biggest changes in places where people are equipped with minimal resources to combat the effects of a changing environment, particularly with regard to human health.Objective: This article documents the observed and projected climate profiles of select sites within the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) network of Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites in Africa and Asia to support the integration of climate research with health practice and policy.Design: The climatology of four meteorological stations representative of a suite of INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs) was assessed using daily data of 10 years. Historical and future trends were analyzed using reanalysis products and global climate model projections.Results: The climate characteristics of the HDSS sites investigated suggest vulnerability to different environmental stressors, and the changes expected over the next century are far greater in magnitude than those observed at many of the INDEPTH member sites.Conclusions: The magnitude of potential future climate changes in the LMICs highlights the need for improvements in collaborative climatehealth research in these countries. Climate data resources are available to support such research efforts. The INDEPTH studies presented in this supplement are the first attempt to assess and document associations of climatic factors with mortality at the HDSSs.Keywords: INDEPTH; CLIMO; climate change; climatology; temperature; precipitation; seasonality; vulnerability; LMICs(Published: 23 November 2012)Citation: Glob Health Action 2012, 5: 19083 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v5i0.19083
关键词：Global Health; Climatology;INDEPTH; CLIMO; climate change; climatology; temperature; precipitation; seasonality; vulnerability; LMICs;RA791-954