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The Health and Health Insurance Implications of Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Narrative Review.

Ousmane Traoré, Jean Brice Tetka

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Review in Public health reviews, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ousmane TraoréDepartment of Economics, Unité de Formation et de recherche en Sciences Economiques et de Gestion (UFR/SEG), Université Thomas Sankara (UTS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Jean Brice TetkaopenIMIS Global Initiative, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Bonn, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: This paper aims to provide a narrative review of the implications of climate change on health and health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: A comprehensive research was employed to carry out a complete narrative study on the subject. Thus, since September 2022 we searched for literature on the relationships between climate change, health, and health insurance on PubMed over an unbounded period. By updating the research method, the outputs cover the period 2009-2024. Results: Based on 19 key articles that focused on the implications of climate change for health and health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa, we highlight that climate change directly affects population health through climate-related disease. Indirectly, climate change affects health through its disruption of food availability and agriculture and through demographic shifts. Conclusion: Finally, this narrative review suggests appropriate strategies to combat the health consequences of climate change and to improve universal health insurance systems.

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climate changehealthhealth insuranceimplicationsreviewsub-Saharan Africa

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PMID39829604
PMCPMC11738609

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