Inclusion criteria | Analytical research studies in which the main objective was |
To estimate the association between extreme precipitation or temperature and drinking water-related waterborne outbreaks or infections | |
Exclusion criteria | Study type: |
-Outbreak reports reporting a single outbreak event. | |
-Pure discussion papers or reviews without specific statistical analysis and results presented. | |
-Studies without statistical analysis of associations (i.e. surveys). | |
Events presented: | |
-Outbreaks or trends of food-borne and vector-borne outbreaks or infections | |
-Study of environmental conditions other than precipitation or air temperature | |
-Main route of transmission other than drinking water. | |
-Estimation of the association between extreme precipitation or temperature and concentration of microorganisms in water, but without data on human illness presented in the paper. | |
-Study of seasonality not related to weather or climate data. | |
Search strategy limited to: | Population: Humans |
Publication year: January 2001-December 2013 | |
Language: English |