Climate change and global health [electronic resource] Edited by C. D. Butler.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: CABI BooksPublisher: Wallingford UK CABI 2014Edition: 1Description: 303ppContent type:- text
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- Flavivirus
- West Indies
- occupational health
- heat
- East Asia
- cognition
- eukaryotes
- viruses
- lyme borreliosis
- foods
- arboviruses
- world
- arctic regions
- bacterial infections
- migration
- Dengue virus
- Plasmodiidae
- Spirochaetes
- worldwide
- mental health
- Spirochaetales
- death rate
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- public health
- hunger
- community involvement
- primates
- mental disorders
- energy
- Apicomplexa
- prokaryotes
- conflict
- mammals
- polar regions
- environmental health
- adaptation
- bacterium
- Europe
- allergies
- workers
- protozoal infections
- Borrelia
- north polar regions
- housing
- ticks
- ssRNA Viruses
- Africa
- famine
- allergens
- wildfires
- Eastern Asia
- global warming
- atmospheric pollution
- spirochaetosis
- animals
- Spirochaetaceae
- tropical countries
- occupational hazards
- Indian Ocean Islands
- tropical zones
- South Asia
- protozoal diseases
- tropics
- cold
- Hominidae
- disease transmission
- Pacific Islands
- tickborne diseases
- Protozoa
- malaria
- Caribbean
- air pollution
- climatic change
- parasitosis
- bacterial diseases
- morbidity
- poverty
- America
- positive-sense ssRNA Viruses
- highlands
- climate change
- Homo
- nutrition
- forest fires
- mental illness
- arthropod-borne viruses
- parasitoses
- Chordata
- natural disasters
- Haemospororida
- parasites
- Latin America
- parasitic diseases
- sex
- human diseases
- Bacteria
- parasitic infestations
- man
- tick-borne diseases
- Lyme disease
- dengue
- vertebrates
- infections
- exposure
- Asia
- climate
- Plasmodium
- bacterioses
- biofuels
- RNA Viruses
- mortality
- food security
- Flaviviridae
There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context. This unique book also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and conflict. This lively yet scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The book finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals can yet take.
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