Table 4.

Interpretation of infectious diseases and health hazards in the context of environmental changes

Theme	Interpretation of infectious diseases and health hazards in the context of environmental changes
Categories	Occurrence and way of transmission of infectious diseases	Regional climate variation and its impact on health, diseases and medicines
Examples of codes	Common cold infection Tuberculosis, measles, small pox, chicken pox, diarrhoea, eye infection Transmitted from one to another Contaminated water and food Unhygienic surroundings, sharing clothes Overcrowding, open air defecation	Irregularity in seasonality, unpredictable cataclysmic events Water pollution, water and food borne diseases Scarcity of food, malnutrition Deforestation, urbanization, air pollution Agricultural intensification Temperature related health effects Emergence of skin diseases, previously suppressed infection Vectors survivorship, resistance to anti‐malaria drugs