Climate change and health - what's the problem?

Globalization and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Anstey, Matthew H R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Harkness Fellow in Health Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; NOTE; POLICY; POLITICS; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECT; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; POLITICS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873457935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-4     Document Type: Note

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