Past, present, and future climate at select INDEPTH member health and demographic surveillance systems in Africa and Asia

Global Health Action

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL., 2012, Pages 74-86

  Hondula, David M ^a   Rocklöv, Joacim ^b   Sankoh, Osman A ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatology; Climo; Indepth; Lmics; Precipitation; Seasonality; Temperature; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; SEASON; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

AFRICA; AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, WESTERN; ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FORECASTING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INDIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 84877131107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v5i0.19083     Document Type: Article

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