Impact of Climate Change on theIncidence Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever:Adaptation of Citizens and GovernmentAgencies
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This research was a descriptive research to study the adaptation of people
and government agencies control and prevention of dengue fever under the context
of climate change in Bang Phlat area. Weather data including rainfall, minimum and
maximum temperature, and the incidence of dengue fever over the past 20 years
(1999 - 2018) were collected to find the trend of climate change in Bangkok.
This served as a guideline to explain the adaptation of the citizens and the
government agency in Bangplad area in terms of dengue prevention and control.
By using the questionnaire, a total 394 households, 591 families, and the head of
the department and the staff working in disease control and prevention of Bang
Phlat district office were interviewed. The study results revealed that the people in
Bang Plad had 5 aspects of adaptation including the ability to observe climate change
and its effects, physical environmental management, personal prevention,
transmission prevention, and situation and climate change monitoring to prevent
the transmission. For the adaption of government agencies, nevertheless, in 2020,
the agency began to adapt the effects of climate change which indicated the
soaring spread of dengue during the rainy season to determine a plan to deal with
changes and to rise the frequency of operations to prevent the dengue before the
rainy season. This information is useful for planning, surveillance and control of
dengue fever in Bang Phlat area, as well as other areas in Bangkok.
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