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dc.contributor.authorKolstad, Erik Wilhelmen_US
dc.contributor.authorJohansson, Kjell Arneen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-06T12:13:23Z
dc.date.available2016-06-06T12:13:23Z
dc.date.issued2010-10-06
dc.PublishedEnvironmental Health Perspectives 2011, 119(3):299-305eng
dc.identifier.issn0091-6765
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/12068
dc.description.abstractBackground: Climate change is expected to have large impacts on health at low latitudes where droughts and malnutrition, diarrhea, and malaria are projected to increase. Objectives: The main objective of this study was to indicate a method to assess a range of plausible health impacts of climate change while handling uncertainties in a unambiguous manner. We illustrate this method by quantifying the impacts of projected regional warming on diarrhea in this century. Methods: We combined a range of linear regression coefficients to compute projections of future climate change-induced increases in diarrhea using the results from five empirical studies and a 19-member climate model ensemble for which future greenhouse gas emissions were prescribed. Six geographical regions were analyzed. Results: The model ensemble projected temperature increases of up to 4°C over land in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century. The associated mean projected increases of relative risk of diarrhea in the six study regions were 8–11% (with SDs of 3–5%) by 2010–2039 and 22–29% (SDs of 9–12%) by 2070–2099. Conclusions: Even our most conservative estimates indicate substantial impacts from climate change on the incidence of diarrhea. Nevertheless, our main conclusion is that large uncertainties are associated with future projections of diarrhea and climate change. We believe that these uncertainties can be attributed primarily to the sparsity of empirical climate–health data. Our results therefore highlight the need for empirical data in the cross section between climate and human health.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherEnvironmental Health Perspectiveseng
dc.rightsAttribution CC BYeng
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.orgeng
dc.subjectclimate changeeng
dc.subjectdiarrheaeng
dc.subjectfuture projectionseng
dc.subjectglobal warmingeng
dc.subjecthuman healtheng
dc.titleUncertainties Associated with Quantifying Climate Change Impacts on Human Health: A Case Study for Diarrheaen_US
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.date.updated2016-04-07T08:46:11Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1002060
dc.identifier.cristin831195
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700en_US


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