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SUBMITTER: Hodges M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4266400 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature climate change 20141201
Despite China's rapid progress improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) access, in 2011, 471 million people lacked access to improved sanitation and 401 million to household piped water. Because certain infectious diseases are sensitive to changes in both climate and WSH conditions, we projected impacts of climate change on WSH-attributable diseases in China in 2020 and 2030 by coupling estimates of the temperature sensitivity of diarrheal diseases and three vector-borne diseases, temperatu ...[more]