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Journal Articles Environmental Science and Pollution Research Year : 2023

Temporal trend of diarrhea morbidity rate with climate change: Egypt as a case study

Amal Saad-Hussein
Mona Adel Helmy
Lamia Samir Ellaithy
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Ali Wheida
Mostafa El Nazer
Agnès Borbon
Mohamed Magdy Abdel Wahab
Amira Mostafa

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Abstract Many studies have detected a relationship between diarrhea morbidity rates with the changes in precipitation, temperature, floods, droughts, water shortage, etc. But, most of the authors were cautious in their studies, because of the lack of empirical climate-health data and there were large uncertainties in the future projections. The study aimed to refine the link between the morbidity rates of diarrhea in some Egyptian governorates representative of the three Egyptian geographical divisions with the meteorological changes that occurred in the 2006–2016 period for which the medical data are available, as a case study. Medical raw data was collected from the Information Centre Department of the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population. The meteorological data of temperature and precipitation extremes were defined as data outside the 10th–90th percentile range of values of the period of study, and their analysis was done using a methodology similar to the one recommended by the WMO and integrated in the CLIMDEX software. Relationships between the morbidity rates of diarrhea in seven Egyptian governorates and the meteorological changes that occurred in the period 2006 to 2016 were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis to identify the most effective meteorological factor that affects the trend of morbidity rate of diarrhea in each governorate. Statistical analysis revealed that some meteorological parameters can be used as predictors for morbidity rates of diarrhea in Cairo, Alexandria, and Gharbia, but not in Aswan, Behaira, and Dakahlia where the temporal evolution cannot be related with meteorology. In Red Sea, there was no temporal trend and no significant relationships between the diarrhea morbidity rate and meteorological parameters. The predictor meteorological parameters for morbidity rates of diarrhea were found to be depending on the geographic locations and infrastructures in these governorates. It was concluded that the meteorological data that can be used as predictors for the morbidity rate of diarrhea is depending on the geographical location and infrastructures of the target location. The socioeconomic levels as well as the infrastructures in the governorate must be considered confounders in future studies.
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hal-04256524 , version 1 (09-11-2023)

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Amal Saad-Hussein, Mona Adel Helmy, Lamia Samir Ellaithy, Ali Wheida, Mostafa El Nazer, et al.. Temporal trend of diarrhea morbidity rate with climate change: Egypt as a case study. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023, 30 (2), pp.5059-5075. ⟨10.1007/s11356-022-22431-z⟩. ⟨hal-04256524⟩
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