Track national patterns
Monitor climate-sensitive health outcomes and environmental hazards across available years and geographies.
South African climate & health intelligence
Climate Change & Health Surveillance
National overview of climate-health interactions across South Africa
In collaboration with its partners, the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is developing an online surveillance platform that showcases important data and key trends related to climate change, air quality and human health in South Africa. The platform includes indicators on diarrhoeal diseases, respiratory conditions, heat-related illnesses, vector-borne diseases and injury patterns.
The platform tracks, visualises and communicates key climate-health interactions across the country. Its goal is to support early warning, risk communication, public health decision-making and response planning through systematic monitoring of climate-sensitive health outcomes and climate-related hazards.
As an epidemiological tool, the dashboard combines anonymised, aggregated health data with climate information and South African Weather Service alerts to help identify unusual changes, emerging risks and connections between climate and health at sub-national level.
Platform overview
Connecting climate, health and place
Climate
Health
Monitoring
Illustrative platform view — the pulsing markers are not live event locations or risk scores.
9
Provinces
52
Districts
0
Records
2020–2024
Period
Purpose of the platform
Evidence for public health action
The dashboard supports surveillance and interpretation; it does not replace formal epidemiological investigation.
Support early warning
Bring health trends, extreme-weather alerts and climate context together to support risk communication and response planning.
Strengthen decisions
Give policymakers, researchers and public-health teams clearer access to aggregated, anonymised evidence.
Platform guideKey evidence areas
Explore the main surveillance views
Use these entry points to review trends, maps, climate context, Ideal Clinic status and source records.
Check national signal
Use Trends to compare indicator movement over time before drilling into districts.
Find place-based patterns
Open the map to compare provinces and inspect geographic concentration.
Review climate context
Check weather events, climate indicators, and active conditions in one place.
Review Ideal Clinic status
Check facility quality status and provincial assessment summaries.
Test a health-climate overlay
Compare annual health indicators with climate event counts for overlap years.
Provincial Indicator Comparison
Latest-year provincial averages for the selected indicator.
Preparing national indicator data…
Interpret provincial rankings with indicator definitions, units and available reporting coverage.
Indicator Trends
National trend over the available reporting period.
Preparing national trend data…
Trend direction is descriptive and should be reviewed with source coverage and indicator definitions.
Data Confidence
Coverage is shown alongside the charts so every comparison can be read in the context of its geography, period and refresh method.
Records
0 health rows
Geography
9 provinces / 52 districts
Period
2020-2024
Refresh
Manual curated imports + live weather
Trends
National average trend for selected indicator
Preparing chart…
See Variable Definitions for indicator descriptions and units.
Top Districts for Selected Indicator
Highest latest-year district values for the selected indicator.
Preparing district distribution…
District views show available aggregated records and are intended to guide closer review.
Current Weather Conditions
Live data via Open-Meteo API
Preparing current weather observations…