Amuakwa Mensah, Franklin and Marbuah, George and Mubanga, Mwenya
(2017).
Climate variability and infectious diseases nexus: Evidence from Sweden.
Infectious Disease Modelling. 2
, 203-217
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Abstract
Many studies on the link between climate variability and infectious diseases are based on biophysical experiments, do not account for socio-economic factors and with little focus on developed countries. This study examines the effect of climate variability and socioeconomic variables on infectious diseases using data from all 21 Swedish counties. Employing static and dynamic modelling frameworks, we observe that temperature has a linear negative effect on the number of patients. The relationship between winter temperature and the number of patients is non-linear and “U” shaped in the static model. Conversely, a positive effect of precipitation on the number of patients is found, with modest heterogeneity in the effect of climate variables on the number of patients across disease classifications observed. The effect of education and number of health personnel explain the number of patients in a similar direction (negative), while population density and immigration drive up reported cases. Income explains this phenomenon non-linearly. In the dynamic setting, we found significant persistence in the number of infectious and parasitic-diseased patients, with temperature and income observed as the only significant drivers.
Authors/Creators: | Amuakwa Mensah, Franklin and Marbuah, George and Mubanga, Mwenya | ||||
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Title: | Climate variability and infectious diseases nexus: Evidence from Sweden | ||||
Series Name/Journal: | Infectious Disease Modelling | ||||
Year of publishing : | 2017 | ||||
Volume: | 2 | ||||
Page range: | 203-217 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 15 | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
ISSN: | 2468-0427 | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||
Version: | Published version | ||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 | ||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Climate Research (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 3 Medical and Health Sciences > 303 Health Sciences > Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 502 Economics and Business > Economics | ||||
Keywords: | Climate variability, Infectious diseases, Sweden | ||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4977 | ||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4977 | ||||
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Alternative URL: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2017.03.003 | ||||
ID Code: | 15640 | ||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Economics | ||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||
Deposited On: | 10 Sep 2018 07:18 | ||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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