Predicted increase in need for comprehensive refugee/migrant health services as climate change provokes further population displacement

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-160

  Kiang, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DROUGHT; FLOODING; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; SKIN DISEASE; TEMPERATURE; TOOTH DISEASE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WEATHER;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; REFUGEES;

EID: 84874079249     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jpc.12075     Document Type: Letter

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