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Development of a probabilistic early health warning system based on meteorological parameters.


ABSTRACT: Among the other diseases, malaria and diarrhoea have a large disease burden in India, especially among children. Changes in rainfall and temperature patterns likely play a major role in the increased incidence of these diseases across geographical locations. This study proposes a method for probabilistic forecasting of the disease incidences in extended range time scale (2-3 weeks in advance) over India based on an unsupervised pattern recognition technique that uses meteorological parameters as inputs and which can be applied to any geographical location over India. To verify the robustness of this newly developed early warning system, detailed analysis has been made in the incidence of malaria and diarrhoea over two districts of the State of Maharashtra. It is found that the increased probabilities of high (less) rainfall, high (low) minimum temperature and low (moderate) maximum temperature are more (less) conducive for both diseases over these locations, but have different thresholds. With the categorical probabilistic forecasts of disease incidences, this early health warning system is found to be a useful tool with reasonable skill to provide the climate-health outlook about possible disease incidence at least 2 weeks in advance for any location or grid over India.

SUBMITTER: Sahai AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7479102 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Development of a probabilistic early health warning system based on meteorological parameters.

Sahai A K AK   Mandal Raju R   Joseph Susmitha S   Saha Shubhayu S   Awate Pradip P   Dutta Somenath S   Dey Avijit A   Chattopadhyay Rajib R   Phani R R   Pattanaik D R DR   Despande Sunil S  

Scientific reports 20200908 1


Among the other diseases, malaria and diarrhoea have a large disease burden in India, especially among children. Changes in rainfall and temperature patterns likely play a major role in the increased incidence of these diseases across geographical locations. This study proposes a method for probabilistic forecasting of the disease incidences in extended range time scale (2-3 weeks in advance) over India based on an unsupervised pattern recognition technique that uses meteorological parameters as  ...[more]

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