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Climate Change & Health
Infectious Disease Transmission
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Water scarcity fact file (WHO, 2009)
World Water and
Climate Atlas (IWMI, 2008)
►Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change
(The Lancet and University College London, 2009) − “Climate
change could be the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. Effects
on health of climate change will be felt by most populations in the next
decades and put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased
risk. ... This report outlines the major threats − both direct and indirect − to
global health from climate change through changing patterns of disease, water
and food insecurity, vulnerable shelter and human settlements, extreme climatic
events, and population migration. Although vector-borne diseases will expand
their reach and death tolls, the indirect effects of climate change on water,
food security, and extreme climatic events are likely to have the biggest
effect on global health.”
►The Lancet series on Health
and Climate Change (2009)
Climate change −
the greatest public health threat of our time: Seeing the wood, not just the
trees (Perspectives in Public Health,
2010)
Climate change: a creeping
catastrophe (Bull. WHO, 2010) – “ The
possible links between climate change and health form one of the most
controversial topics of our time.”
Climate change and its potential impact on health: a call for integrated
action (Bulletin WHO, 2010)
Global environmental
change and health: impacts, inequalities, and the health sector (BMJ, 2008)
Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health
(Worldwatch Report, 2009) − Executive Summary.
Global climate and health: predicting infectious disease
outbreaks ( Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization,
2006)
Climate Change and Health (Commission on Climate Change and Development, 2009)
Climate change and infectious disease: a dangerous liaison?
( The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2008)
The Impact of Climate Change on Water, Sanitation, and Diarrheal
Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean (PRB,
2007)
Climate, climate change and human health in Asian cities
( Environment and Urbanization, 2008)
Climate
Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (Center for
Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, 2005) Executive
summary for Policymakers
Climate Change and Human Health − Risks and Responses (WHO,
WMO & UNEP, 2003)
Under the
Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease (NAP, 2001)
Climate
change (WHO webpage) Factsheet: Climate and health (WHO, 2007)
WHO publications on health and climate change, 1990−2008
Climate Change and the Health of the Public (whole issue of
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, November
2008)
Modeling the effects
of weather and climate change on malaria transmission (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2010)
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