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Public Health Rev
Volume 45 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/phrs.2024.1607212
This article is part of the Special Issue MITIGATING AND ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: EVIDENCE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH View all 10 articles

The health and health insurance implications of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: A narrative review

Ousmane TRAORE Ousmane TRAORE 1*Jean Brice Tetka Jean Brice Tetka 2
  • 1 Université Thomas Sankara, Dori, Sahel, Burkina Faso
  • 2 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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    Objectives: This paper aims to provide a narrative review of the implications of climate change on health and health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa.A comprehensive research was employed to carry out a complete narrative study on the subject. Thus, since September 2022 we searched for literature on the relationships between climate change, health, and health insurance on PubMed over an unbounded period. By updating the research method, the outputs cover the period 2009-2024.Results: Based on 19 key articles that focused on the implications of climate change for health and health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa, we highlight that climate change directly affects population health through climate-related disease. Indirectly, climate change affects health through its disruption of food availability and agriculture and through demographic shifts.Finally, this narrative review suggests appropriate strategies to combat the health consequences of climate change and to improve universal health insurance systems.

    Keywords: climate change, Health, Health Insurance , sub-Saharan Africa. JEL Classification: Q51, Q54

    Received: 26 Feb 2024; Accepted: 10 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 TRAORE and Tetka. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ousmane TRAORE, Université Thomas Sankara, Dori, Sahel, Burkina Faso

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