Public health consequences of global climate change in the United States - Some regions may suffer disproportionately

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 169-179

  Longstreth, Janice ^a,b  

^a The Waste Policy Institute   (United States)

^b Institute for Global Risk Research LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Global climate change; Public health; Regional impacts; Risk assessment; Sensitive populations

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD POISONING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; INFECTION; INSECT; INTESTINE INFECTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WEATHER;

ARBOVIRUS; INSECTA;

EID: 0032961851     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107s1169     Document Type: Article

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