Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Need for Better Evidence

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kula, Nothemba ^a   Haines, Andy ^b   Fryatt, Robert ^a  

^a UK Department for International Development (DFID) Southern Africa   (South Africa)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PARASITOSIS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNCERTAINTY; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84873828427     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001374     Document Type: Article

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