Climate change: Politicians must heed health effects of climate change

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 339, Issue 7722, 2009, Pages 647-

  Lim, Victor ^a   Stubbs, Joseph W ^b   Nahar, Nazmun ^c   Amarasena, Naomali ^d   Chaudry, Zafar Ullah ^e   Weng, Steven Chow Kim ^f   Mayosi, Bongani ^g   Van Der Spuy, Zephne ^h   Liang, Raymond ⁱ   Lai, Kar Neng ^j   Metz, Geoffrey ^k   Fitzgerald, G William N ^l   Williams, Brian ^m   Douglas, Neil ⁿ   Donohoe, John ^o   Darnchaivijir, Somwang ^p   Coker, Patrick ^q   Gilmore, Ian ^r  

^a Academy of Medicine of Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

^c Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons   (Bangladesh)

^d Ceylon College of Physicians   (Sri Lanka)

^e Department of Medical Education   (Pakistan)

^f Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^g College of Physicians of South Africa ^*  (South Africa)

^h The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa   (South Africa)

ⁱ Hong Kong Academy of Medicine   (Hong Kong)

^j Hong Kong College of Physicians   (Hong Kong)

^k ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (Australia)

^l ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF CANADA   (Canada)

^m ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^o ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^p Royal College of Physicians of Thailand   (Thailand)

^q West African College of Physicians   (Nigeria)

^r ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON;

AFRICA; CAR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH; LETTER; MEAT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; NOTE; POLITICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; POLITICS;

EID: 70349581617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b3672     Document Type: Letter

References (1)

1. Mayor S. Climate change will have greatest health impact on poor, report warns. BMJ 2009;338:b2024. (19 May.)[Free Full Text]