Abstract
Climate change is a challenge for the sustainable development of an international economy and society. The impact of climate change on infectious diseases has been regarded as one of the most urgent research topics. In this paper, an analysis of the bibliometrics, co-word biclustering, and strategic diagram was performed to evaluate global scientific production, hotspots, and developing trends regarding climate change and infectious diseases, based on the data of two decades (1999–2008 and 2009–2018) from PubMed. According to the search strategy and inclusion criteria, a total of 1443 publications were found on the topic of climate change and infectious diseases. There has been increasing research productivity in this field, which has been supported by a wide range of subject categories. The top highly-frequent major MeSH (medical subject headings)/subheading combination terms could be divided into four clusters for the first decade and five for the second decade using a biclustering analysis. At present, some significant public health challenges (global health, and travel and tropical climate, etc.) are at the center of the whole target research network. In the last ten years, “Statistical model”, “Diarrhea”, “Dengue”, “Ecosystem and biodiversity”, and “Zoonoses” have been considered as emerging hotspots, but they still need more attention for further development.
Highlights
It has been firmly established that the Earth is warming, which is shown by the increase in the average ocean temperature and air temperature, and in the melting of snow and ice
A better understanding of the human health dimensions of climate change is necessary for protecting people from climate-sensitive hazards and the development of a sustainable coping strategy [6,7,8,9]
Based on our search strategy and on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 1443 journal articles were retrieved in PubMed on the topic of climate change and infectious diseases from 1999 to 2018
Summary
It has been firmly established that the Earth is warming, which is shown by the increase in the average ocean temperature and air temperature, and in the melting of snow and ice. Global climate change is one of the most widely discussed topics, in the field of climate science or policy making, and in a range of health researches [1,2]. Global climate change is one of the most widely discussed topics, in the field of climate science or policy making, and in a range of health researches [1,2] It can affect human health via different pathways of complexity, directness, and scale [3,4,5]. Public Health 2020, 17, 5228; doi:10.3390/ijerph17145228 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
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