A5076032215- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Malaria Research and Control
- Global Health Care Issues
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Climate variability and models
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Research, Science, and Academia
- Heavy metals in environment
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Digital Imaging for Blood Diseases
- Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
2010-2023
Institute for Soil, Climate and Water
2018-2022
National Research Foundation
2019-2021
Stellenbosch University
2008
University of Cape Town
1998-2004
Rhodes University
1991
Early studies of weather, seasonality, and environmental influences on COVID-19 have yielded inconsistent confusing results. To provide policy-makers the public with meaningful actionable environmentally-informed risk estimates, research community must meet robust methodological communication standards.
Abstract Although there have been enormous demands and efforts to develop an early warning system for malaria, no sustainable has remained. Well-organized malaria surveillance high-quality climate forecasts are required sustain a in conjunction with effective prediction model. We aimed weather-based model using weekly time-series data including temperature, precipitation, cases from 1998 2015 Vhembe, Limpopo, South Africa apply it seasonal forecasts. The performed well short-term predictions...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 270:163-172 (2004) - doi:10.3354/meps270163 Population genetic structure of perlemoen Haliotis midae in South Africa: evidence range expansion and founder events B. S. Evans1,2,4,*, N. A. Sweijd3, R. C. K. Bowie3,5, P. Cook3, G. Elliott2 1School Zoology, University Tasmania, GPO Box 252-05, Hobart, Tasmania...
Diarrheal disease is one of the leading causes morbidity and mortality globally, particularly in children under 5 years age. Factors related to diarrheal incidence include infection, malnutrition, exposure contaminated water food. Climate factors also contribute disease. We aimed explore relationship between temperature, precipitation diarrhoea case counts hospital admissions among vulnerable communities living a rural setting South Africa. applied ‘contour analysis’ visually examine...
SARS-CoV-2 virus infections in humans were first reported December 2019, the boreal winter. The resulting COVID-19 pandemic was declared by WHO March 2020. By July 2020 is present 213 countries and territories, with over 12 million confirmed cases half a attributed deaths. Knowledge of other viral respiratory diseases suggests that transmission could be modulated seasonally-varying environmental factors such as temperature humidity. Many studies on sensitivity are appearing online, some have...
Local expressions of climate change are threatening the capacity coastal ecosystems to support goods and services valued by society on a global scale. As articulated in many international national ocean policies, conventions agreements, there is widespread agreement that adaptive, ecosystem-based approaches needed manage risks adapt impacts our environment. Design implementation such requires routine continuous provision data information enable regular assessments states marine estuarine...
Background Climate change is expected to exacerbate diarrhoea outbreaks across the developing world, most notably in Sub-Saharan countries such as South Africa. In Africa, diseases related outbreak a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. this study, we modelled impacts climate on with various machine learning (ML) methods predict daily cases nine African provinces. Methods We applied two deep Learning DL techniques, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) Long-Short term Memory (LSTMs);...
The climate of southern Africa is expected to become hotter and drier with more frequent severe droughts the incidence diarrhoea increase. From 2015 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, experienced a drought which resulted in extreme water conservation efforts. We aimed gain holistic understanding relationship between young children variability system stressed by scarcity.Using mixed-methods approach, we explored diarrhoeal disease under 5 years 2010 2019 primarily public health through routinely...
Millions of individuals are at risk malaria infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Compared to other highly affected countries on the continent, South Africa has an excellent record control. Nevertheless, northeastern districts country, neighboring some worst regions southern Africa, still experience seasonal outbreaks particularly during summer months September-February. The year variations as many parts world, often linked interannual rainfall and temperature. These meteorological factors turn...
<strong>Background:</strong> Measuring national progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) enables identification of gaps which need to be filled end poverty, protect planet and improve lives. Progress is typically calculated using indicators stemming from published methodologies. South Africa tracks SDGs at a scale, but aggregated data may mask progress, or lack thereof, local levels. <strong>Objective:</strong> To assess achievement in four low-income, rural villages...
The acute respiratory infectious disease season, or colloquially the "flu season", is defined as annually recurring period characterized by prevalence of an outbreak diseases. It has been widely agreed that this season spans winter globally, but precise timing intensity onset in South Africa not well defined. This limits efficacy public health sector to vaccinate for influenza timeously and facilities synchronize efficiently increase cases. study explores statistical thresholds defining...
Epidemiological studies have provided compelling evidence of associations between temperature variability (TV) and health outcomes. However, such are limited in developing countries. This study aimed to investigate the relationship TV hospital admissions for cause-specific diseases South Africa. Hospital admission data cardiovascular (CVD) respiratory (RD) were obtained from seven private hospitals Cape Town 1 January 2011 31 October 2016. Meteorological African Weather Service (SAWS). A...
Concern and general awareness about the impacts of climate change in all sectors social-ecological-economic system is growing as a result improved science products information, well increased media coverage apparent manifestations phenomenon our society. However, scales variability change, space time, are often confused so attribution on various sectors, including health sector, can be misunderstood misrepresented. In this review, we assess mechanistic links between infectious diseases...