Strengthening Health Research for Climate Change in Africa
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Date
2018
Authors
Yitambe, Andre
Warutere, Peterson Njogu
Kibarraa, Kenneth Rucha
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Publisher
Granthaalayah Publications and Printers
Abstract
Despite the complexity of climate change and health research,studies conducted are still remaining
non-interdisciplinary and non -multidisciplinary. A number of literatures has demonstrated the
complexity for carrying research on climate change from socialsciences, climate sciencesto public
health sciences. Social scientists look at the climate change as a social constructedness when
climate scientists look at the climate change in term of terrestrial, oceanographic, and atmospheric
change due to carbon dioxide emission, greenhouse emission, and ozone depletion. Health research
studies have demonstrated the impact of climate change on health In Africa, Middle Income
Countries as well as in Advanced Industrialized countries. Drawn on ethno-monographic studies,
desk-based studies, secondary data and review of literatures relative to climate change and health,
this paper examines the impact of climate change in Africa. The findings reveal three impacts of
climate change: direct effects, indirect effects and postulated effects. The findings inform Disaster
Risk Reduction Policy Makers on mitigation measure and adaption
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Keywords
Adaption, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Health Research, Impact, Mitigation
Citation
Yitambe, A., Warutere, P. N., & Kibarraa, K. R. STRENGTHENING HEALTH RESEARCH FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IN AFRICA.