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Occupation and Occupational Therapy

Introduction to Malaria Analysis

Malaria is one of the easily transmitted vector-borne diseases in the world. Any change in climate and climatic exposure leads to changes in the temperature and rainfall which make malaria one of the most sensitive health outcomes to changes in climate. With increasing changes in climate nowadays and a fluctuation in the global temperature, the chances of malaria incidence increasing due to climate changes also comes up (Dasgupta 2018). This essay discusses how climatic changes act as environmental determinants of malaria.

Health Challenge of Malaria

Malaria is an infectious disease, vector-borne, caused by the parasite-protozoan belonging to the genus- plasmodium. It is transmitted via the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito and causes intermittent fever. The mosquito itself does not get the disease, only acts as a vector and carrier of the plasmodium. It bites th....