Climate Change And Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever In Banggai Regency

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10.2991/phico-17.2018.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever; climate change; humidity; rain intensity

Abstract

Climate change has caused various social impacts such as changing of ecosystem and increasing tropical diseases i.e Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF). The tropical area which has high humidity has more potential to breed aedes agypti rather than other areas. The pattern of DHF in the District of Banggai had fluctuated since 2010 and in 2016 it has gradually increased by 15 out of 100,000 populations. The aim of this study is to analyze the correlation between climate change and the incidence of DHF in the District of Banggai. The methods used by this research was ecological studies with a time series approach. Data were obtained from the Health Service and the Statistics Agency in District of Banggai from 2010 to 2015 comprised several variables: the number of DHF incidence, the average of rainfall (mm), level of humidity (%), the average of temperature (oC), and sunlights (%). Pearson correlation test (r) is provided to analyze the data. The results show that the humidity of DHF cases, rain intensity one month before and the increasing of both temperature and sunlight in the previous three months get significant values (ρ<0,05). It relates to Butterworth (2016) and Ebi et al (2016) who stated the increasing number of vector and dengue virus is affected to the climate change. In addition, the higher temperature, the more spreaded Aedes aegypti counts. As a result, the government should improve the capacity of surveillance to optimize the treatment and prompt responses used for preventing DHF epidemics.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Erni Yusnita Lalusu
AU  - Herawati Herawati
AU  - Nasrin Kodim
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Climate Change And Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever In Banggai Regency
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Public Health International Conference (PHICo 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 43
EP  - 47
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/phico-17.2018.10
DO  - 10.2991/phico-17.2018.10
ID  - YusnitaLalusu2017/12
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