Climate change: Public health crisis or opportunity

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 415-417

  Shea, Katherine M ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; NATURAL DISASTER; POPULATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; SECONDARY PREVENTION; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH STATUS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE;

EID: 56149108090     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PHH.0000333873.47948.ea     Document Type: Editorial

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