Mapping vulnerability to climate change and its repercussions on human health in Pakistan

Globalization and Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Malik, Sadia M ^a   Awan, Haroon ^b   Khan, Niazullah ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Avicenna Consulting   (Pakistan)

^c Saiber Foundation   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Health; Pakistan; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGROECOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENGUE FEVER; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FLOODING; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MALARIA; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; STATE ROLE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VULNERABILITY;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE INFECTION; FLOODING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GASTROENTERITIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SCURVY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WELLBEING; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BALUCHISTAN; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN]; SIND;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84865603303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-8-31     Document Type: Article

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