Climate change and temperature rise: Implications on food- and water-borne diseases

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 437, Issue , 2012, Pages 15-21

  El Fadel, Mutasem ^a   Ghanimeh, Sophia ^a   Maroun, Rania ^a   Alameddine, Ibrahim ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Food and water borne diseases; Public health

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BROAD SPECTRUM; CLIMATIC SCENARIOS; COASTAL CITIES; DRIVING FORCES; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; STUDY AREAS; TEMPERATURE RISE; WATER-BORNE; WATER-BORNE DISEASE;

FOSSIL FUELS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE; MITIGATION; MORBIDITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN AREA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEBANON; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORBIDITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BEIRUT; BEYROUTH; LEBANON;

EID: 84867583704     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.041     Document Type: Article

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