Family & Community Medicine Department/Anbar Medical College, Anbar University, Ramadi, Iraq.
Curr Environ Health Rep. 2022 Jun;9(2):315-323. doi: 10.1007/s40572-022-00339-7. Epub 2022 Mar 14.
An increase in the annual daily temperature is documented and predicted to occur in the coming decades. Climate change has a direct effect and adverse impact on human health, as well as on multiple ecosystems and their species. The purpose of this paper is to review the effect of climate change on neglected tropical diseases including leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). A list of engine web searches was done; 280 full-text records were assessed for eligibility. Only 48 original records were included within the final selection for the review study. Most research results show an alteration of neglected diseases related to climate change influencing specifically the Eastern Mediterranean Region, in addition to the expectation of more effects at the level of vectors and reservoir whether its vector transmission route or its egg hatching and replication or even the survival of adult worms in the coming years. At the same time, not all articles related to the region interpret the direct or indirect effect of climate variations on these specific diseases. Although few studies were found describing some of climate change effects on neglected tropical diseases in the region, still, the region lacks research funding, technical, and mathematical model expertise regarding the direct effect of climate change on the ecosystems of these neglected tropical diseases.
有文献记载并预测，未来几十年内，年日平均气温将上升。气候变化对人类健康以及多个生态系统及其物种都有直接的不利影响。本文旨在回顾气候变化对被忽视的热带病的影响，包括东地中海地区（EMR）的利什曼病、血吸虫病和淋巴丝虫病。进行了引擎网络搜索列表；评估了 280 份全文记录的合格性。最终选择了 48 篇原始记录纳入综述研究。大多数研究结果表明，与气候变化相关的被忽视疾病发生了变化，特别是在东地中海地区，预计未来几年，无论是媒介传播途径，还是卵孵化和复制，甚至是成虫的存活，媒介和病媒生物宿主都将受到更多影响。同时，并非所有与该地区相关的文章都能解释气候变化对这些特定疾病的直接或间接影响。尽管发现了一些研究描述了该地区气候变化对被忽视的热带病的一些影响，但该地区仍然缺乏研究资金、技术和数学模型方面的专业知识，无法直接了解气候变化对这些被忽视的热带病的生态系统的影响。
