Climate change and human health

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1433-1436

  Epstein, Paul R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL;

ASTHMA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHOLERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; DEFORESTATION; DENGUE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFECTION RATE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; MELTING POINT; OZONE LAYER; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS; THERMAL EXPOSURE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 25844454901     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp058079     Document Type: Review

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