Mosquito-borne Diseases and Climate Change Implementing Strategies

Abstract

Mosquito-related diseases are a serious public health problem not only in the Philippines but also for the entire planet. The increase of mosquito-borne diseases has been attributed to climate change, though, contradicting reports show inconclusive relationships between dengue and mosquito-borne diseases.

This paper presents the mitigation and adaptation action towards climate change and the correlation of climatic factors such as temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, and rainfall to the cases of mosquito-borne diseases. The data gathered from the survey were evaluated using the mean percentages. Pearson correlation was utilized to determine the extent of correlation between the incidence of mosquito-borne diseases and climatic factors. Results showed a significant correlation between temperature (p=0.020) only.

The adaptation and mitigation actions are shown to have challenged the existing plan and implementation strategies since commendable action towards climate change is not evident to all groups studied that could also be a contributory factor for the incidence of mosquito-borne diseases.