Incorporating qualitative methodologies and fieldwork into large scale, quantitative analyses of climate health in low-income countries

Climate can affect individual health through a number of mechanisms, including changes in food access or availability, heat stress, and drought. Each of these mechanisms are mediated by decisions that individuals, households, and communities make, and so associations between climate change and health outcomes that do not account for these pathways can disguise true effects. In a recent study examining the link between climate variables and...