The costs of climate change: A study of cholera in Tanzania

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4386-4405

  Trærup, Sara L M ^a   Ortiz, Ramon A ^b   Markandya, Anil ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation costs; Cholera; Climate change; Health impacts; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST; COST OF ILLNESS; DEATH; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84055190958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph8124386     Document Type: Article

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