Climate change and health: Global to local influences on disease risk

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 535-549

  Patz, J A ^a   Olson, S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABILITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INFECTION; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISASTER; HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

HEXAPODA; RODENTIA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 34447313112     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485906X97426     Document Type: Review

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