Climate-Sensitive Diseases: Public Health Preparedness in the Face of Environmental Change
This study investigates the readiness of public health systems to address CSDs in the context of accelerating environmental change. Specifically, it evaluates current preparedness strategies, identifies regional and systemic vulnerabilities, and assesses the statistical relationships between climatic variables and disease incidence. The central hypothesis is that climate-sensitive diseases are not only rising in incidence but are also geographically shifting due to changing environmental patterns, and current public health strategies are insufficiently adaptive or anticipatory. Using a mixed-methods approach with a primary emphasis on quantitative analysis, this study employs statistical modeling to examine longitudinal health and climate data across diverse geographic regions.
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Climate-Sensitive Diseases, Public Health Preparedness, Environmental Change, Epidemiological Modeling, Health Systems Resilience
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(1) Rehan Shakeel
MPhil Public Health, Department of Public Health, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Mehwish Sarfaraz
MPhil Public Health, Department of Public Health, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Hafiz Waqas Ahmed
Registrar, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Mayo Hospital Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.