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ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2018

Unexplored Opportunities: Use of Climate- and Weather-Driven Early Warning Systems to Reduce the Burden of Infectious Diseases.

Cory W Morin, Jan C Semenza, Juli M Trtanj, Gregory E Glass, Christopher Boyer, Kristie L Ebi

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Review in Current environmental health reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  17. Effects of Ambient Temperature, Relative Humidity, and Precipitation on Diarrhea Incidence in Surabaya.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Cory W MorinUniversity of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE # 100, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA. cwmorin@uw.edu.
Jan C SemenzaEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden.
Juli M TrtanjNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Gregory E GlassUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Christopher BoyerUniversity of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE # 100, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
Kristie L EbiUniversity of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE # 100, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewWeather and climate influence multiple aspects of infectious disease ecology. Creating and applying early warning systems based on temperature, precipitation, and other environmental data can identify where and when outbreaks of climate-sensitive infectious diseases could occur and can be used by decision makers to allocate resources. Whether an outbreak actually occurs depends heavily on other social, political, and institutional factors. RECENT

findingsImproving the timing and confidence of seasonal climate forecasting, coupled with knowledge of exposure-response relationships, can identify prior conditions conducive to disease outbreaks weeks to months in advance of outbreaks. This information could then be used by public health professionals to improve surveillance in the most likely areas for threats. Early warning systems are well established for drought and famine. And while weather- and climate-driven early warning systems for certain diseases, such as dengue fever and cholera, are employed in some regions, this area of research is underdeveloped. Early warning systems based on temperature, precipitation, and other environmental data provide an opportunity for early detection leading to early action and response to potential pathogen threats, thereby reducing the burden of disease when compared with passive health indicator-based surveillance systems.

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ClimateWeatherCommunicable Disease ControlCommunicable DiseasesDengueDisease OutbreaksForecastingHumansPopulation DensityPublic HealthClimateEarly warning systemsForecastingInfectious disease

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PMID30350265

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