A scoping review of current climate change and vector-borne disease literacy and implications for public health interventions - 13/01/24

Doi : 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100295 
Meghan Matlack a, , Hannah Covert b, Arti Shankar c, Wilco Zijlmans d, Firoz Abdoel Wahid b, Ashna Hindori-Mohangoo e, Maureen Lichtveld b
a School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 321 S Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, United States of America 
b Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 De Soto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America 
c Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States of America 
d Faculty of Medical Sciences, Discipline of Pediatrics, Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Leysweg 86, P.O. Box 9212, Paramaribo, Suriname 
e Foundation for Perinatal Interventions and Research in Suriname (Perisur), Anton Dragtenweg 93, Paramaribo, Suriname 

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Abstract

Climate literacy assesses general understanding of climate, climate change, and its effects on the environment as well as human health. Despite vast scientific evidence to support climate change and its associated consequences, particularly with regards to vector-borne diseases, climate change knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among the general population is relatively poor. In this study, we conducted a thorough review of the current literature to evaluate the scope of global climate and health literacy studies and identify key areas for improvement. We found that very few climate and health literacy studies were based in low- and middle-income countries, and those that were did not make mention of significant regional climate change impacts and specifically those that increase mosquito-borne disease transmission in high-risk areas. We also noted that of the twenty-three studies included in our final review, most focused their assessments on general climate and climate change knowledge, and not on literacy of the relationships between climate change and environmental impacts or subsequent health outcomes. Our findings make it clear that moving forward, there is a major need for climate and health literacy research to expand upon existing climate literature to include additional assessments of the relationships between certain climate change impacts and infectious diseases in particular, as well as to make available a more comprehensive overview of climate and health information to the public in the future.

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Keywords : Climate change, Public health, Literacy, Knowledge, Vector-borne disease, Mosquitoes


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