Climate change and population health in Africa: Where are the scientists?

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Byass, Peter ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate change; Population health; Research; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959805313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2065     Document Type: Article

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