title: Climate change, urbanization and disease: summer in the city….
abstract: Climate change and urbanization can alter the burden of human diseases. The tropics, a region that includes the poorest populations and highest disease burdens, are expected to get slightly hotter and substantially more urban. Studies have projected changing burdens under different climate or urbanization scenarios, but it remains unclear what will happen if both happen at once. Interactions could amplify disease burdens, improve health overall, or shift burdens around. Social planners need better data on contemporary seasonal disease incidence patterns across the spectrum of climate, urbanicity and socio-economic status. How climate change, urbanization and health interact must be understood to adequately plan for the future.
authors.affiliation: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA rcreiner@indiana.edu.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Reiner
authors.affiliation: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Peter W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Gething
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities / Q000453:epidemiology; D057231:Climate Change; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D012424:Rural Population / Q000639:trends; D012621:Seasons; D013383:Suburban Population / Q000639:trends; D014329:Tropical Climate; D014504:Urban Health / Q000639:trends; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Climate change; Composition of disease; Seasonality; Tropical climates; Urbanization