ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Drought and Illness among Young Children in Uganda, 2009-2012.
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- Understanding the Impact of Rainfall on Diarrhea: Testing the Concentration-Dilution Hypothesis Using a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Environmental health perspectives · 2020Pooled it
- Extreme weather events and refugee youths' experiences of physical health in a Ugandan humanitarian setting: qualitative insights.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- The association between total precipitation and diarrhea morbidity: A multicountry study across diverse climate zones.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Assessing Sub-Saharan Africa's readiness to address the impact of climate change and health: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Drought, HIV Testing, and HIV Transmission Risk Behaviors: A Population-Based Study in 10 High HIV Prevalence Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- Health gender gap in Uganda: do weather effects and water play a role?International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- Climate Change and Cascading Risks from Infectious Disease.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2022Review
- Associations between long-term drought and diarrhea among children under five in low- and middle-income countries.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Droughts and child health in Bangladesh.PloS one · 2022Article
- Drought and child vaccination coverage in 22 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: A retrospective analysis of national survey data from 2011 to 2019.PLoS medicine · 2021Article
- The impact of climate change on maternal and child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: A five-year (2020-2024) scoping review.The journal of climate change and healthReview
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Abstract
Changing precipitation patterns resulting from climate change are likely to have deleterious effects on health. We examined historical relationships between precipitation and diarrhea, cough, and fever among children aged 0-24 months in Uganda, a drought-prone region. Using data from the Uganda National Panel Survey from 2009 to 2012 (2,324 observations), we specified logistic regression models evaluating the relationships between deviations from annual and 30-day precipitation and caregiver-reported diarrhea, cough, and fever, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics and including enumeration of area-fixed effects. Nonlinearities were assessed using restricted cubic splines. We observed nonlinear (J-shaped) relationships between deviations from annual precipitation and the three child illness outcomes. These J-shaped relationships represented steep reductions in illness with increasing precipitation at lower levels of rainfall and a leveling off at higher levels, with a small increase at higher levels. We did not find evidence for a relationship between 30-day precipitation and childhood illness. Trends of reduced rainfall in Uganda are likely having negative effects on child health.
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