Methods for assessing public health vulnerability to global climate change

Climate Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 113-125

  Patz, Jonathan A ^a   Balbus, John M ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arboviruses; Bioclimatology; Cholera; Dengue; Ecological risk assessment; Exposure; GIS; Global warming; Malaria; Modelling; Mosquitos; Remote sensing; Vector borne diseases

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEALTH RISK; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH;

AFRICA;

EID: 0029750892     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr006113     Document Type: Article

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