Driving disease emergence: Will land-use changes beat climate change to the punch?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1322, 2010, Pages 5-7

  Slaney, David ^a   Derraik, José G B ^b   Weinstein, Philip ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOBACTER; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM; EDITORIAL; GIARDIA; INCIDENCE; LAND USE; NEW ZEALAND; URBANIZATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPIDEMIC; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH; GLOBAL HEALTH;

EID: 77956671546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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