Drought and Public Health Challenges: Analysing causations and interventions

dc.contributor.author	Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-22T11:06:41Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-22T11:06:41Z
dc.date.issued	2022-02
dc.identifier.citation	Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo. Drought and Public Health Challenges: Analysing causations and interventions. Disaster Advances; Vol. 15(2); 73-77; doi: https://doi.org/10.25303/1502da7377; (2022)
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.25303/1502da7377
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28755
dc.description.abstract	Water stress, occasioned by irregular and insufficient rainfall, has been found to have far-reaching impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Often, these impacts have been linked to agriculture, industry and household water needs. In transcending these usual narratives about drought impacts, this study attempts to discuss the drought-health nexus which is an area of scholarship that has not gained much attention. Relying on extant literature as data source and content analysis as analytical tool, the study highlights the impacts of drought on public health. The study recommends early warning systems (EWSs), scenario planning (SP) etc. as interventions which can ameliorate the impacts of drought on public health.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Drought	en
dc.subject	adaptation	en
dc.subject	public health	en
dc.subject	vulnerability	en
dc.title	Drought and Public Health Challenges: Analysing causations and interventions	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.description.department	Institute for Social and Health Studies (ISHS)	en