Mapping climate change vulnerabilities to infectious diseases in Europe

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 385-392

  Semenza, Jan C ^a   Suk, Jonathan E ^a   Estevez, Virginia ^a   Ebi, Kristie L ^b   Lindgren, Elisabet ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Infectious diseases; Surveillance; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FOOD POISONING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RODENT BORNE DISEASE; VECTOR BORNE DISEASE; WATER BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84857710541     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103805     Document Type: Article

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