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  • Environmental Health
  • Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • Global Health Security

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  • Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading infectious cause of death globally.
  • Climate change impacts health determinants, but its link to TB is under-researched.
  • TB is often overlooked in climate change and health policy discussions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an analytical framework for understanding climate change's potential impact on TB.
  • To identify climate-sensitive determinants of TB and their mechanistic pathways.
  • To highlight the need for integrating TB into climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of existing literature on TB determinants.
  • Development of a conceptual framework linking climate change to TB.
  • Identification of potential causal pathways and evidence collation.

Main Results:

  • No direct studies currently link climate change and TB.
  • Indirect evidence suggests plausible causal relationships exist.
  • Key determinants of TB, such as poverty and migration, are sensitive to climate change.

Conclusions:

  • Tuberculosis should be recognized as a climate-sensitive disease.
  • Urgent research is needed to quantify the climate change-TB relationship.
  • Integrating TB into climate action plans is crucial to prevent setbacks in TB control.