Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa
- Chapman, Sarah
- Birch, Cathryn E
- Marsham, John H
- Part, Chérie
- Hajat, Shakoor
- Chersich, Matthew F
- Ebi, Kristie L
- Luchters, Stanley
- Nakstad, Britt
- Kovats, Sari
DOIAbstract
Children (<5 years) are highly vulnerable during hot weather due to their reduced ability to thermoregulate. There has been limited quantification of the burden of climate change on health in sub-Saharan Africa, in part due to a lack of evidence on the impacts of weather extremes on mortality and morbidity. Using a linear threshold model of the relationship between daily temperature and child mortality, we estimated the impact of climate change on annual heat-related child deaths for the current (1995–2020) and future time periods (2020–2050). By 2009, heat-related child mortality was double what it would have been without climate change; this outweighed reductions in heat mortality from improvements associated with development. We estimate...
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