How Will Climate Change Affect Human Health?

American Scientist

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 534-541

  Martens, Pim ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH IMPACT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 0033402274     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/1999.42.839     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. IPCC. 1998. The Regional Impacts of Climate Change - An Assessment of Vulnerability. A Special Report of IPCC Working Group II, ed. R. T. Watson, M. C. Zinyowera, R. H. Moss and D. J. Dokken. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2. Levins, R., T. Awerbuch, U. Brinkman et al. 1994. The emergence of new diseases. American Scientist 82:52-60.
3. Martens, P. 1998. Health and Climate Change: Modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion. London: Earthscan Publications.
4. McMichael, A. J., A. Haines, R. Slooff and S. Kovats. 1996. Climate Change and Human Health: An Assessment Prepared by a Task Group on Behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme. Geneva: World Health Organization.
5. McMichael, A. J. et al. 1996. Human population health. In Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analysis, ed. R. T. Watson, M. C. Zinyowera, R. H. Moss and D. J. Dokken. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 563-584.
6. Patz, J. A., P. R. Epstein, A. B. Thomas, A. Burke and J. M. Balbus. 1996. Global climate change and emerging infectious diseases. The Journal of the American Medical Association 275:217-223.
7. Rooney, C., A. J. McMichael, R. S. Kovats and M. Coleman. 1998. Excess mortality in England and Wales, and in Greater London, during the 1995 heatwave. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 52:482.