Climate Change Impacts on Health and Wellbeing: The Case of Senegal

The document analyzes how climate change impacts public health in Senegal through heatwaves, floods, and droughts, while highlighting a community-led resilience project in Widou Thiéngoly.

• Climate change in Senegal manifests as diverse regional threats: coastal areas like Dakar face sea-level rise, erosion, and flooding; Sahelian and northern/northeastern regions suffer from severe droughts, desertification, and land degradation; and the Casamance region is prone to flooding from heavy rainfall.
• Environmental changes directly drive specific health crises in Senegal, including heat-related illnesses from severe heatwaves, waterborne diseases like cholera from flooding and contaminated water, and the spread of malaria and dengue due to changes in temperature and precipitation affecting mosquito vectors.

APA

Diouf, I. (2023). Climate Change Impacts on Health and Wellbeing: The Case of Senegal. Africa Policy Research Institute. https://afripoli.org/climate-change-impacts-on-health-and-wellbeing-the-case-of-senegal

Chicago

Diouf, Ibrahima. Climate Change Impacts on Health and Wellbeing: The Case of Senegal. Africa Policy Research Institute, 2023. https://afripoli.org/climate-change-impacts-on-health-and-wellbeing-the-case-of-senegal.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{diouf2023climate, author = {Diouf, Ibrahima}, title = {{Climate Change Impacts on Health and Wellbeing: The Case of Senegal}}, institution = {Africa Policy Research Institute}, year = {2023}, month = dec, url = {https://afripoli.org/climate-change-impacts-on-health-and-wellbeing-the-case-of-senegal}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }