SynthesisPathogens and global health2015
Is dengue a disease of poverty? A systematic review.
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84 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Beyond the Mosquito: Social Determinants of Health and Global Strategies for Aedes-Borne Disease Control.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2026Pooled it
- Cost of dengue in Colombia: A systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Pooled it
- The role of urbanisation in the spread of Aedes mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit-A systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Productivity costs from a dengue episode in Asia: a systematic literature review.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Dengue virus infection.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Outbreak of dengue fever in Ghana: The emergence of DENV-1 serotype.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- The susceptibility status of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes in Malaysia on pyrethroid and organophosphate insecticides with first detection of T1520I mutation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- High-resolution climate-dengue modeling and mid-century projections under SSP5-8.5 in Costa Rica.Science in One Health · 2026Article
- Understanding the social determinants of Aedes-borne diseases in Iran: A qualitative exploration of challenges and policy solutions.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Designing a multidimensional vulnerability index for supervising dengue cases from 2015 to 2020 in a low/middle-income country: A spatial principal component analysis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Observational
- Introduction, establishment, and distribution ofLancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
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- Epidemiological and Geographical Factors Associated with Dengue in Bangladesh: A Multicenter Study of the 2023 Dengue Epidemic.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- A Comparison of the Clinical and Epidemiological Profile of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever with Dengue and COVID-19 in Hospitalized Children, Sonora, México, 2015-2022.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Dengue in patients with kidney transplant: a systematic review.Le infezioni in medicina · 2025Review
- What Could Be Responsible for Some Mosquito-Borne Diseases? Is It Poverty, Gender Inequality, Underdevelopment, Globalization, or Climate Change? Which One(s)?Journal of tropical medicine · 2025Article
- Identifying drivers of dengue fever outbreaks in Mauritius using Geographic Information System.Jamba (Potchefstroom, South Africa) · 2025Article
- The dengue disquisition: A low-cost public housing conundrum in Klang Valley, Malaysia.PloS one · 2025Article
- "Dengue fever is not just urban or rural: Reframing its spatial categorization."Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Extreme precipitation, exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, drove Peru's record-breaking 2023 dengue outbreak.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Policy prescriptions for combating dengue fever tend to focus on addressing environmental and social conditions of poverty. However, while poverty has long been considered a determinant of dengue, the research evidence for such a relationship is not well established. Results of a systematic review of the research literature designed to identify and assess the current state of the empirical evidence for the dengue-poverty link reveal a mixed story. Of 260 peer-reviewed articles referencing dengue-poverty relationships, only 12 English-language studies empirically assessed these relationships. Our analysis covering various social and economic conditions of poverty showed no clear associations with dengue rates. While nine of the 12 studies demonstrated some positive associations between measures of dengue and poverty (measured inconsistently through income, education, structural housing condition, overcrowding, and socioeconomic status), nine also presented null results and five with negative results. Of the five studies relating to access to water and sanitation, four reported null associations. Income and physical housing conditions were more consistently correlated with dengue outcomes than other poverty indicators. The small size of this sample, and the heterogeneity of measures and scales used to capture conditions of poverty, make it difficult to assess the strength and consistency of associations between various poverty indicators and dengue outcomes. At present, the global body of eligible English-language peer-reviewed literature investigating dengue-poverty relationships is too small to support a definitive relationship. We conclude that more research, particularly using standardized measures of both outcomes and indicators, is needed to support evidence-informed policies and approaches.
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