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Effect of climatic variability on childhood diarrhea and its high risk periods in northwestern parts of Ethiopia — Europe PMC PMID:29073259

Source: Europe PMC (en)
Original: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/29073259
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186933
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Effect of climatic variability on childhood diarrhea and its high risk periods in northwestern parts of Ethiopia — Europe PMC PMID:29073259 — Europe PMC (en), https://europepmc.org/article/MED/29073259 (CC0-1.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_2bca08239d84 (Metraipolis archive dc_2bca08239d84, sha256 2fd34e9043086b3f9dd53ed1f0df390b90b00ef8a80bc0867985b7adc421b065)

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@misc{dc2bca08239d84,
  title = {Effect of climatic variability on childhood diarrhea and its high risk periods in northwestern parts of Ethiopia — Europe PMC PMID:29073259},
  howpublished = {Europe PMC (en)},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/29073259},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_2bca08239d84; sha256 2fd34e9043086b3f9dd53ed1f0df390b90b00ef8a80bc0867985b7adc421b065},
  year = {2026}
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Background: Increasing climate variability as a result of climate change will be one of the public health challenges to control infectious diseases in the future, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa including Ethiopia. Objective: To investigate the effect of climate variability on childhood diarrhea (CDD) and identify high risk periods of diarrheal diseases. Methods: The study was conducted in all districts located in three Zones (Awi, West and East Gojjam) of Amhara Region in northwestern parts of Ethiopia. Monthly CDD cases for 24 months (from July 2013 to June 2015) reported to each district health office from the routine surveillance system were used for the study. Temperature, rainfall and humidity data for each district were extracted from satellite precipitation estimates and global atmospheric reanalysis. The space-time permutation scan statistic was used to identify high risk periods of CDD. A negative binomial regression was used to investigate the relationship between cases of CDD and climate variables. Statistical analyses were conducted using SaTScan program and StataSE v. 12. Results: The monthly average incidence rate of CDD was 11.4 per 1000 (95%CI 10.8-12.0) with significant variation between males [12.5 per 1000 (95%CI 11.9 to 13.2)] and females [10.2 per 1000 (95%CI 9.6 to 10.8)]. The space-time permutation scan statistic identified the most likely high risk period of CDD between March and June 2014 located in Huletej Enese district of East Gojjam Zone. Monthly average temperature and monthly average rainfall were positively associated with the rate of CDD, whereas the relative humidity was negatively associated with the rate of CDD. Conclusions: This study found that the most likely high risk period is in the beginning of the dry season. Climatic factors have an association with the occurrence of CDD. Therefore, CDD prevention and control strategy should consider local weather variations to improve programs on CDD.

Tema degli esploratori: matematica e informatica teorica (ricerca Europe PMC «combinatorics», solo open access).
Pubblicazione: PloS one, 2017 (prima pubblicazione 2017-10-26).
Identificativi: PMID 29073259 · PMCID PMC5658103 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0186933.
Descrittori MeSH principali: Climate.
Pagina: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/29073259 — https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186933. Autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
Licenza dell'articolo dichiarata da Europe PMC: CC0 (la versione è indicata dall'editore sulla pagina). Abstract riportato senza modifiche al contenuto, con attribuzione; deposito marcato CC0.
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