Climate sensitive diseases surveillance and early warning system implementation manual

Abstract

Globally, since the early 1990s, the changing climate has been a hot topic under discussion by global experts and politicians due to its profound impact on the worldwide health, economy, ecology and trade. Understanding climate and environmental effects on infectious disease ecology through interdisciplinary efforts due to complexity of the natural and human system provides opportunities to simulate, investigate, and predict transmission dynamics. Monitoring the potential impacts of climate change on health is important for a number of reasons. The provisions of epidemiological evidence supported by climate service are needed to inform policy-makers, health practitioners and communities about the magnitude of climate change effects on health. As part of surveillance systems, climate service (information) can help to determine the requirements for the effectiveness of preventive and adaptive strategy of health to climate variables and change.