Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework

Saunders, MJ and Boccia, D and Khan, PY and Gosce, L and Gasparrini, A and Clark, RA and Pescarini, JM and Charalambous, S and Fekadu, L and Dockhorn da Costa Johansen, F and Vasilyeva, I and Narendran, G and Li, T and Ndjeka, N and White, RG and Houben, RMGJ and Zignol, M and Gebreselassie, N and McQuaid, CF (2025) Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework. Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework, 14 (267-80).

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Abstract

The health effects of climate change operate through complex and interconnected pathways, as outlined in the WHO Framework on Climate Change and Health, and further characterised in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Lancet Countdown on climate change and health.1–3 Briefly, the WHO Framework postulates that climate-related hazards (eg, extreme weather events or sea level rise) interact with vulnerabilities (eg, gender or comorbidities), and exposures (eg, food and health systems) leading to direct and indirect health effects. These include injuries and mortality; increases in zoonotic diseases, foodborne, waterborne, vector-borne, and non-communicable diseases; and mental ill health.4 Climate change is also already affecting determinants of health by driving poverty, causing migration and displacement, worsening food and water insecurity, and disrupting access to health care and support systems.1–3 Importantly , many of the effects of climate change are cascading and compounding, and disproportionately affect populations in low-income and middle-income countries particularly the most vulnerable, where resilience and ability to adapt are lower

Affiliation:	ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tubercuosis
Item Type:	Article
URI:	http://eprints.nirt.res.in/id/eprint/2137

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