Impact of extreme precipitation events on facility-based births in 21 sub-Saharan African countries
Oumar Aly Ba, Fleur Hierink, Cameron Taylor, Peter M. Macharia, Lenka Beňová, Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti, Nicolas Ray · 2026
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Oumar Aly Ba and six co-authors study how extreme rain affects childbirth care in Africa in this two thousand twenty-six paper. Heavy rain can flood roads and cut off clinics. Whether that lowers the share of births in health facilities was not well measured. The team joined health survey data from twenty-one sub-Saharan countries with daily rainfall maps. They covered more than two hundred fifty thousand births across nearly thirteen thousand places.
An extreme rain day was one wetter than eighty-five percent of local history. Each added extreme day in the three days before birth cut facility births measurably. The drop was about two percent from the baseline rate. Climate planners and health systems can use this link to prepare for wetter futures.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Oumar Aly Ba, Fleur Hierink, Cameron Taylor, Peter M. Macharia, Lenka Beňová, Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti, Nicolas Ray |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |